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  2. Pieris rapae - Wikipedia

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    Pieris rapae is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae.It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, [note 1] on several continents as the small cabbage white, and in New Zealand as the white butterfly. [2]

  3. External morphology of Lepidoptera - Wikipedia

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    The scales on butterfly wings are pigmented with melanins that can produce the colours black and brown. The white colour in the butterfly family Pieridae is a derivative of uric acid, an excretory product. [13] [40]: 84 Bright blues, greens, reds, and iridescence are usually created not by pigments but through the microstructure of the scales.

  4. Pieris (butterfly) - Wikipedia

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    Pieris, the whites or garden whites, is a widespread, now almost cosmopolitan, genus of butterflies of the family Pieridae.The highest species diversity is in the Palearctic, with a higher diversity in Europe and eastern North America than the similar and closely related Pontia.

  5. Pieris brassicae - Wikipedia

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    In 2010 the butterfly was found in Nelson, New Zealand where it is known as the great white butterfly. [3] It is classed as an unwanted pest due to the potential effect on crops. [ 4 ] For a limited period in October 2013 the Department of Conservation offered a monetary reward for the capture of the butterfly. [ 5 ]

  6. Papilio nephelus - Wikipedia

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    Hindwing: basal area sprinkled with yellow scales that form three longitudinal slender lines in the cell: the upper white discal patch as on the upperside, but the elongate white markings that compose it well divided by the black veins; below the discal white patch there is a small series of white spots in interspaces 1 to 3, the spot in 1 ...

  7. The 10 Most Common House Spiders to Look Out For, According ...

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    “Spiders are beneficial bugs that help control other pest insects such as flies, adult mosquitoes, ants, etc.” Capture and release can look like using a cup and a piece of paper to capture and ...

  8. Junonia coenia - Wikipedia

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    Junonia coenia, known as the common buckeye or buckeye, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.Its range covers much of North America and some of Central America, including most of the eastern half of the US, the lower to middle Midwest, the Southwest (including most of California), southern Canada, and Mexico.

  9. Chlorophytum comosum - Wikipedia

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    Chlorophytum comosum, usually called spider plant or common spider plant due to its spider-like look, also known as spider ivy, airplane plant, [2] ribbon plant (a name it shares with Dracaena sanderiana), [3] and hen and chickens, [4] is a species of evergreen perennial flowering plant of the family Asparagaceae.