This is the kind of photo we WOULD be showing you if Professor Art Shapiro had netted the Pieris rapae he spotted last Thursday (Jan. 30) in Putah Creek Nature Park. This photo shows his winning catch ...

Plants exist a large number of secondary metabolites with complex structures, which constitute the unique taste of each plant species. As an agricultural pest in the world, the caterpillars of cabbage ...

Over more than four decades of running his annual Beer for a Butterfly Contest, Professor Art Shapiro hasn’t had to buy many pitchers for anyone but himself. The beer (or its equivalent) is for ...

A butterfly for a beer? Suds for a bug? The annual “Butterfly for a Beer” contest, sponsored by Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, ...

A quirky New Year’s tradition with serious scientific roots fluttered back into action Thursday as the annual “Beer for a Butterfly” contest got underway across the Sacramento Valley. The contest, ...

Through close examination of genetic variation and similarities between existing populations, and comparisons of historical data regarding infestations of Pieris rapae in Brassicaceae crops, a ...

We may have our Eastern Mediterranean neighbors to thank for the multivoltine species, the Pieris rapae cabbage white butterflies in our garden these days. Like the monarch butterfly, the cabbage ...