Exceedingly well known to most gardeners, the Cabbage White has spread throughout North America after its unintentional introduction to Quebec in 1860. No other butterfly is so successful over such a great variety and expanse of landscape. Some of the pierid emigrants may temporarily exceed this species in numbers, but they are neither as persistent nor as widespread. Its spectacular success has been blamed - probably erroneously - for the decline or retreat of some of its indigenous relatives. Farmers and gardeners consider the Cabbage White a pest, so great is its appetite for cabbages, radishes, and nasturtiums.

description 1 1/4-1 7/8" (32-48 mm). Milk-white above with charcoal FW tips, black submarginal sex spots on FW (1 on male, 2 on female) and on HW costa. Below, FW tip and HW pale to bright mustard-yellow, speckled with grayish spots and black FW spots.

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