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Poor Cabbage white

28 Jul 2023 6 63
Another butterfly in our backyard. While our supper was cooking, this Cabbage White settled on the waxball bush catching the low sun. (I call it waxball; some call it snowberry. You may know it as Symphoricarpos albus. You got to call it sumpin'. [Sing that like Bob.]) If the poor Cabbage White had a better name, it'd probably be one of our most appreciated butterflies. The name refers to its (granted: bad) habit of laying eggs on Brassicas and thus gobbling up what we want to eat. But it's still pretty.