Cabbage White butterfly laying eggs on glass
Apr 27, 2013 22:48:45 #
This poor Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) could find no host plants for egg laying, so elected to deposit her eggs onto a glass watering cup. No host plant means no food for caterpillars.
Hand-held Nikon D5000 at ISO 400, with Nikkor 105G macro lens, 1/200-sec at f/22, diffused sun & Nikon SB-600 speedlight with O-Flash Fresnel prism diffuser.
Hand-held Nikon D5000 at ISO 400, with Nikkor 105G macro lens, 1/200-sec at f/22, diffused sun & Nikon SB-600 speedlight with O-Flash Fresnel prism diffuser.
Laying eggs
Egg clutch on glass cup, cropped to 2:1 (2x life-size)
Apr 27, 2013 23:10:22 #
Apr 27, 2013 23:22:45 #
EarthArts wrote:
Cabbage family.Nice photos, Nikonian. What are the host plants ?
Apr 28, 2013 05:38:00 #
Would that be why here in the uk we call them by their nickname "cabbage whites"?
Apr 28, 2013 08:20:03 #
Apr 28, 2013 10:35:18 #
nice shots!!!!! i have always lived in rural areas so i cant imagine this.tom
Apr 28, 2013 13:16:12 #
Apr 28, 2013 20:35:08 #
Apr 28, 2013 20:43:03 #
Apr 28, 2013 21:10:12 #
Nice set Douglass....just curious, would it even be possible to move the eggs to a host plant, or a substitute host plant so they might have a chance?
Apr 28, 2013 21:20:29 #
bogeyeliot wrote:
This Cabbage White is a captive in the L.A. County Natural History Museum's Butterfly Pavilion. The USDA prohibits cabbage host plants within the Pavilion tent enclosure, because there are a few non-native captive butterflies that also host on the same plants. To prevent potential proliferation of these non-native butterflies, no cabbage plants are allowed to feed unwanted caterpillars.just curious, would it even be possible to move the eggs to a host plant, or a substitute host plant so they might have a chance?
Apr 29, 2013 15:28:23 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
This Cabbage White is a captive in the L.A. County Natural History Museum's Butterfly Pavilion. The USDA prohibits cabbage host plants within the Pavilion tent enclosure, because there are a few non-native captive butterflies that also host on the same plants. To prevent potential proliferation of these non-native butterflies, no cabbage plants are allowed to feed unwanted caterpillars.
...and there you have it....
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