do you have any factoids about the pieris genus? particularly pieris rapae cuz i named my after them :) my name is pae (pronounced like the english word "pay") taken from the end of their name
unrelated thing about my name but it's unintentionally an anagram for "ape" which is fun because i'm interested in nonhuman primates
weeble for your troubles
Honestly I don't know much about them beyond what you can read on their wikipedia page! So I'm sorry I can't share any fun facts but I can share a few nice photos for you to enjoy! These are all Pieris rapae although all flutterbies in Pieris are lovely
Fuzzy lil caterpillar up close!!! Photo by flossiepip
Less close but still good. They are SO fuzzy and adorable. Photo by matt227
A nice yellow adult by Judy Gallagher
Chrysalises can be brown, tan, green, yellow, or a combination of those, so here's a couple:
Photos by jacqui-nz and jellyelfhomestead
And finally the egg!
Obviously this is an extreme close up, and they're VERY tiny...like 1mm. Photo by Gilles San Martin
@rogueinkglitch submitted: Here I am again with more bugs from my family’s native plant garden here in Ohio!
Some butterflies caught in an intimate moment, a big ol’ bee, some beetles, and a wasp of some kind? I would love IDs for the beetles and wasp!
Looks like lots of nice friends are attracted to this garden! The beetles are wedge-shaped beetles, Macrosiagon limbata. The wasp is a thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae, but I couldn't say which species. There are a few that look very similar.