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THE enormous numbers of ‘Large Cabbage Whites’ (Pieris brassicæ (L.)) which entered England last summer were preyed upon very frequently by birds, and this Department received many dismembered wings picked up in gardens, etc. The offspring of these immigrants have been much in evidence this month, and have also been destroyed in large numbers by birds.
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CARPENTER, G. Destruction of Cabbage White Butterflies by Birds. Nature 145, 900–901 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145900b0
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