Talk:Pieris brassicae

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I have removed some of the entries from the taxobox after having read the guidance in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage article. Too much removed? Not enough? --AjAldous 20:29, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My 10 year old daughter just asked me: what do Cabbage Whites eat, when they are butterflies, not caterpillars? Hoped to find an answer here... :( --Oop 11:02, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Suggest going through butterfly --Viren 17:22, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The title of this page does seem to be "large white butterfly" so of course there is nothing on its caterpillar or eggs. 212.183.128.221 (talk) 17:26, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article was the subject of an educational assignment in Fall 2013. Further details were available on the "Education Program:Washington University in St. Louis/Behavioral Ecology (Fall 2013)" page, which is now unavailable on the wiki.

Hello, my name is Lori and I am a student at Washington University in St. Louis. I have made additions to the behavior of the Large White butterfly, such as reproductive behavior, migration, and others. Ichooxu (talk) 03:37, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the grammar of the behavior and reproduction sections of the article, rephrasing sentences and clarifying some words used. I also took out one sentence (“During Copulation, males carry females on their backs”) on reproductive behavior that did not seem to fit under the heading (Mating System). In general, most of my corrections for this article were grammatical or format-related. kzyoung (talk) 01:01, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I made multiple writing and grammatical edits throughout the article. The entirety of the "male" section was formatted in something akin to a list, but written as sentences, so I attempted to make the descriptions actually flow. Ashleynlin (talk) 18:06, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You have a broad range of coverage on this butterfly. I fixed some grammatical errors and added a “Female” subheading to the Appearance section (one thing to think about – is this more focused on Sexual Dimorphism?). You have a good use of wikilinks in the majority of the article, but I think you could use more in the appearance section. It was also confusing to have sexual dimorphism information starting off the territorial behavior section, and I think it would be good to have more elaboration on their territorial behavior in this section. Your mimicry section is also fairly short – are there any examples you could find on mimicry? Who do they mimic? Jenniferreed1510 (talk) 21:36, 31 October 2013 (UTC) JenniferReed1015[reply]

Hey, I looked through the page and created a few links to help guide through the page and also changed the lead section a little bit. I also added images to assist with the description of the life cycle in the page. I would recommend looking for a few more images as they are readily available online for this species. Jychoe90 (talk) 07:16, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, great job on the addition! I fixed some grammatical mistake in the article and added wikilinks to those words I thought might need explanation. • I think this sentence needs an explanation: “These butterflies’ migration patterns are typically observed only when something happens out of the ordinary.” It could be improved just by giving some examples of what “out of the ordinary” means. Aliciacanas (talk) 15:55, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your articles seems to have a lot of great info on all different parts of this butterfly. Good Job. I have a few suggestions for achieving good article status. You should make your lead comprehensive. It should provide an overview of all the major points in the article, and should not contain any unique information that is not found elsewhere in the article. I also suggest adding a section on taxonomy. There are many sections that are only a few sentences long. If you can combine the sections logically into one paragraph, I think it would improve the flow and the appearance of the article. Finally, in the mimicry section, you only mention mimicry once. I suggest adding more information on how it is a mullerian mimic, and which species it mimics. Alternatively, you could rename the section to aposematism. Abuatois (talk) 04:35, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Great job on the various sections of this butterfly page! The behavior sections look especially thorough. I added some information on pest importance. The lead section should be elaborated on and you might want to add some behavior info since that is a huge chunk of the page. Wmhua (talk) 18:36, 21 November 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.25.27 (talk) [reply]

Overall, this article is well organized and easy to follow! This article also contains a good amount of information on behavior, including mating, migration, hibernation, and territorial behavior. I found the discussion of how females choose where to lay their eggs and how they learn food preferences to be particularly interesting. However, I have several suggestions on how to improve this article. Although there are sections on hibernation and territorial behavior, these sections are very brief and could be expanded to include more explanation. While there is a lot of information on larvae food preferences, a section could be included on adult feeding. Additionally, a new section that could be useful to add to the outline is mimicry. This topic is touched upon in the Aposematism section but is not well explained and could use expansion in its own section. Finally, the introductory section could also be expanded to provide a more thorough overview of the contents of the article. EmilyKathryn (talk) 04:17, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Overall, I thought that this was a good article. I really like that I was able to follow the article and gain a lot of information from it about Pieris brassicae. Many of the sections were detailed. I thought it was kind of funny that a butterfly so pretty would be a pest. It was interesting to see that females oviposit on the underside of leaves because the larvae’s preference. I think that the article could be rearranged in a different order to allow the article to flow better. For example, the morphology should be closer to reproduction and development. Habitat should be after distribution. There are some grammatical issues that could be fixed such as capitalization problems and sentence structures. The article could use a lead section or introduction. It is because I feel like I do not know enough about the butterfly to keep reading and if I wanted a summary from just that section I do not think that it was adequate enough. I think the article could use information about male to male interactions because I would like to know how and why females are choosing certain males even though theses butterflies can be polyandrous. I understand that this is an article about butterflies and they behave, but I feel like I do not know much about the caterpillar and I think just knowing its social behavior would be enough because then I could have a sense of what the caterpillar is like. The article is listed as a level 4 vital article and had been rated as C- class. Though the article has a lot of pertinent information listed there is still more material that can be added to improve the status of the article. There are people who made editions to the paper, but I am unclear if they actually knew what they were doing because they were asking others if they thought they made the right decision. One person came looking to find info about what the butterflies ate, but could not. Many people fixed the grammatical errors of the paper and I think that is good because it can make an okay article sound much better than it is. WAdekunle (talk) 02:27, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Pieris brassicae, the large white, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae, common in Europe, Asia and North Africa. The larva pictured here, which was found at a market in Fronton, France, is a serious pest of plants in the cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The eggs are laid in batches on the undersides of the leaves of plants rich in mustard-oil glucosides, and consumption of these substances as they chew the leaves makes the larvae distasteful; the bright colouration of the larvae signals to predators that they taste bad. Additionally, the adult butterflies emit an unpleasant smell and display warning colours.

Photograph credit: Didier Descouens

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Wow thanks you. I corrected a typo in the text. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 13:07, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]