Large Garden White 



The caterpillar is rather hairy, dull-coloured under- 

 neath, black on the back, with two lines of broad red 

 spots running from head to tail. When you find this 

 caterpillar, you generally get a whole brood of them, as 

 they are gregarious and live under a web until nearly 

 fully fed. 



The chrysalis is of a bright straw colour, spotted and 

 streaked with black, and is not so angular as the 

 chrysalis of the Large Garden White. 



The butterfly is out in midsummer, and is rarely 

 seen outside of the most southern counties, and even 

 there it seems to prefer the coast. In Continental 

 gardens it sometimes attacks the fruit-trees in such 

 numbers as to constitute a plague. 



THE LARGE GARDEN WHITE BUTTERFLY (Pieris 

 brassic<e\ Plate I., Fig. 3, is well known to everybody. 

 Town and country seem to be the same to him ; indeed, 

 I do believe he lives and thrives best in the town and 

 village gardens ; only twice have I met with the larva 

 in a really wild situation, once finding a few caterpillars 

 on a lonely shore in Arran, and I once got a chrysalis 

 on a beech-tree trunk on the border of a large wood. 

 Cabbage, kale, savoy, and cress, arc the plants which 

 the female usually selects as the most suitable to Jay her 

 eggs on, but as the caterpillars grow towards maturity 

 there are few plants they will not attack, especially if 

 they are driven by hunger and a lack of their usual 

 food. The butterfly hardly needs description ; suffice it 

 to say that the female, besides having a rather larger 

 expanse of black at the tip of the fore-wing, has also 



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