Monday printables: Draw a Cabbage White Butterfly

I love them despite their huge appetite for my broccoli crop

Remember Eric Carle’s classic children’s book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar? It could have been written about today’s drawing subject, the cabbage white (Pieris rapae). Despite a woefully short adult lifespan of less than two weeks, every female lays an average of 700 eggs… which soon become 700 ravenous caterpillars craving turnips, cauliflower, broccoli, mustard greens and nasturtiums. In a single season, one butterfly can produce more than 30 million great-grandchildren! So tiny, fluttering snow-white wings are never a welcome sight in the garden patch.