Pieris rapae

Cabbage White at Tuggeranong DC, ACT

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Identification history

	Pieris rapae	3 Mar 2020	SuziBond
	Appias paulina	29 Feb 2020	RodDeb

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User's notes

probably turn out to be a Cabbage White but it looked different and quite big. It did not settle at all and flew around fairly fast up and down. There was no sign of any other yellow/white butterflies.

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SuziBond wrote:

4 Mar 2020

Unfortunately it's a Cabbage White... the best way to separate these species is by the location of the dots on the forewing. Our region is currently seeing some of the less common migrants moving through, so do keep looking in case one of them does turn out to be a Yellow Albatross!

RodDeb wrote:

4 Mar 2020

Thanks Suzi, yep we keep looking, still nowhere near as many butterflies around so hope it won't affect their populations drastically for next year also.

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Sighting information

1 Abundance
28 Feb 2020 01:30 PM Recorded on
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Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Whites & Yellows (Pieridae) RodDeb Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

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50mm or larger Animal size

Species information

Pieris rapae Scientific name
Cabbage White Common name
Not Sensitive
Exotic
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 2142.2m Recorded at altitude
377 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Artogeia rapae

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