The Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae, also called the Small White) carries a rich mix of folklore, garden mythology, and historical lore spanning centuries and continents.

In places like New Zealand and Australia, the explosion of the cabbage white population in the early 1900s led to the deliberate introduction of parasitoid control wasps (Cotesia glomerata). This biological tug-of-war became a foundational chapter in modern agricultural pest-management folklore. ~ Kats Garden



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