The #butterfly #Pieris #rapae (#Pierinae) is native to #Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is a #neozoan in North America since the 19th century and e.g. in Australia since the 20th.. In Central Europe, it has up to four #generations per year.
Snell-Rood E.C. & Kobiela M.E. (2023) published a general protocol for controlled rearing making the species a #researchmodel.

© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

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Snell-Rood E.C. and Kobiela M.E. (2023)
https://doi.org/10.3791/65383

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