Small Cabbage White Butterfly (IMAGE)
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An unassuming, small, white butterfly is among the world's most invasive pests affecting crops like cabbage, kale and broccoli. A newly published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences? (PNAS)? documents how humans have helped Pieris rapae, the small cabbage white butterfly, spread across the globe for thousands of years.
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Image by Lauren Nichols, Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University. Used by permission.
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