Photograph of a cabbage white butterfly with her eggs laid on a kale leaf

by Stephen Hewitt | Published 19 August 2021 | Last updated 22 August 2021

White butterfly with black markings, wings closed, near a cluster of 29 yellow spots on the leaf. Dark soil in the background at the bottom of the picture. — Cabbage white or large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae) with eggs she has just laid on the underside of a leaf of cultivated cavolo nero kale, August 2021, England.

A cluster of 29, ellipsoid-shaped, yellow eggs on a green leaf. — Close-up of butterfly eggs stuck to the underside of a cabbage leaf, laid by a large white (Pieris brassicae) minutes before. These are the eggs shown in the previous photograph. August 2021, England.

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