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Article
Evidence for Use of Alliaria petiolata in North America by the European Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris rapae
Journal of Entomology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Disciplines
Abstract
Pieris rapae L., an invasive crop pest, may have recently begun using Alliaria petiolata Bieb. (Cavara & Grande), a European invasive biennial. We investigated how P. rapae uses forest habitats for nectar and oviposition and examined larval performance on A. petiolata in the field and laboratory. Being known primarily to occupy open habitats, we found that P. rapae regularly uses forest edge habitats, most surveyed A. petiolata plants had P. rapae damage, and P. rapae successfully used both stages of A. petiolata for larval development.
DOI
10.1155/2016/9671506
Citation Information
Sam L. Davis and Don Cipollini. "Evidence for Use of Alliaria petiolata in North America by the European Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris rapae" Journal of Entomology Vol. 2016 (2016) ISSN: 1812-5670 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/don-cipollini/55/
Copyright © 2016 Sam L. Davis and Don Cipollini. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.