Trying to photograph a butterfly is difficult! Is it a Cabbage White?

A day after taking the pictures of the caterpillars on the broccoli, we were outside and I spotted a white butterfly around the broccoli. A said, "Oh, that is a Cabbage White. But, why is it on our broccoli?" Well, I luckily had just watched a Good Eats episode on broccoli, and it turns out that broccoli is genetically indistinguishable from cabbage. And so, I told A.

We also got the old butterfly house from last year, and put some caterpillars in it. We know what they eat! I try to cut off the mostly eaten leaves for the pets. We'll see for sure what they turn into. :)

The first picture is the best, the rest are hear to try and convey the absolute difficulty of photographicing a flitting butterfly that won't hold still! And I deleted the same number of pictures again that were complete misses.

Picture 1. Cabbage White butterfly around broccoli.

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Picture 4. Shows damage to broccoli too.