Pieris rapae


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Noun1.Pieris rapae - toxic green larva of a cabbage butterflyPieris rapae - toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly
cabbageworm
genus Pieris, Pieris - type genus of the Pieridae
caterpillar - a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
2.Pieris rapae - small widely distributed form
small white
cabbage butterfly - white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage
genus Pieris, Pieris - type genus of the Pieridae
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Hymenoptera: Apidae) and the cabbage white butterfly Pieris rapae (L.
Effect of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on flower-visiting behavior of insects on Brassica napus (Brassicales: Brassicaceae)
Hsp20 mRNA in Pieris rapae pupae was clearly up-regulated between 12-48 h post-parasitization by Pteromalus puparum (Zhu et al.
Gene Expressions of Heat Shock Proteins in Bombyx mori Egg Parasitized by a Parasitoid Wasp, Telenomus theophilae
The Wisconsin Fast Plants group has used Pieris rapae, the cabbage white butterfly, as a model organism to demonstrate the interdependence of these butterflies and rapid-cycling Brassica rapa, or the Fast Plant, developed by Paul Williams at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Williams & Hill, 1986).
Using brassica butterflies as a model organism for AP Biology Lab 11
Induction did not affect the feeding behavior of the larvae of the specialist butterfly, Pieris rapae.
BENEFITS AND COSTS OF INDUCED PLANT DEFENSE FOR LEPIDIUM VIRGINICUM (BRASSICACEAE)
Further, high- and low-glucosinolate selection lines differed in the level of percentage leaf area damaged by the herbivores Pieris rapae and Trichoplusia ni in choice trials in the laboratory ([Mathematical Expression Omitted] damage, [Mathematical Expression Omitted] damage, and [Mathematical Expression Omitted] damage, [Mathematical Expression Omitted] damage for P.
Experimental evolution of resistance in Brassica rapa: correlated response of tolerance in lines selected for glucosinolate content
Pieris rapae larvae used came from a laboratory colony initiated with butterflies collected at local sites near Amherst, MA, in 2010 and reared on collards.
Effect of Cotesia rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on survival of larval cohorts of Pieris rapae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) on collards: evaluation of an introduced biological control agent
The repellent-dotted species, Pieris rapae, hitchhiked to Canada in 1860 from its native Eurasia and North Africa.
No tickling: common caterpillars deploy defensive hair. (This Week)
Major factors in survival of the immature stages of Pieris rapae.
Effects of larval food-limitation on Vanessa cardui linnaeus (Lepidoptera: nymphalidae)
Effect of physiological condition of the host plant on the ovipositional choice of the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae.
Host-plant selection and predation risk for offspring of the parent bug
1993); Pieris rapae, Pontia daplidicae, Polygonia c-album (Wedell, Karlsson, and Wiklund pers.
Resource allocation and mating systems in butterflies
Major factors in the survival of the immature stages of Pieris rapae (L.
Host plants alter the reproductive behavior of Pieris brassicae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) and its solitary larval endo-parasitoid, Hyposoter ebeninus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in a cruciferous ecosystem
Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was introduced to the United States as a biological control agent against the invasive vegetable pest Pieris rapae (L.
Distribution of Cotesia rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and its displacement of Cotesia glomerata in eastern North America

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