The White or Imported Cabbage Butterfly pieris rapae There is probably no butterfly which one can generally find so easily in its early stages as the White or Imported Cabbage butterfly which is found practically wherever cabbages are grown and is generally so abundant that caterpillars and chrysalids are readily discovered.
"Butterflies Worth Knowing"
Clarence M. Weed
On reaching home he found that he had parted with specimens of the rare Bath White, pieris daplidice, for some quite common butterflies.
"Grain and Chaff from an English Manor"
Arthur H. Savory
The man who was the first to see his cabbage-plot devastated by caterpillars made the acquaintance of the pieris.
"More Hunting Wasps"
J. Henri Fabre