3438 x 5170 px | 29,1 x 43,8 cm | 11,5 x 17,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2005
Ubicazione:
uk
Altre informazioni:
The cabbage white butterfly emerges from this chrysalis in the summer and lays its cluster of small yellow eggs on brassicas, cabbages. They hatch in a very few days and devour the cabbages until the leaves look like lace, with only the toughest veins left on the leaf. At the end of summer the cabbage white butterfly caterpillar walks into the garden shed and attaches itself to some part of the woodwork where it sheds its skin and sits out the winter as a chrysalis until the following summer when it happens all over again. This picture shows a much enlarged chrysalis of course to show it and its hibernating preference.
