home.social

#pieris — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pieris, aggregated by home.social.

fetched live
  1. I saw two cabbage white butterflies flying yesterday, which is odd, as this species should be overwintering as a pupa at the moment.

    I looked on #iNaturalist for all the observations of adult cabbage white butterflies from June and July in the Canterbury region of NZ.

    We launched the NZ community of iNaturalist in 2012 and there are only 11 Canterbury observations of cabbage whites in June or July. One is from 2024, two are from 2025, and 8 are from 2026. It feels like a trend.

    Also, notable amongst those observations is a cabbage white seen this month by legendary NZ lepidopterist Brian Patrick. Brian notes "my latest in season - my first Winter records!"

    inaturalist.nz/observations?mo

    #ClimateChange #Lepidoptera #Pieris #NZ #iNaturalist #Canterbury #NZ #iNaturalistNZ #insects #entomology #butterflies

  2. I saw two cabbage white butterflies flying yesterday, which is odd, as this species should be overwintering as a pupa at the moment.

    I looked on #iNaturalist for all the observations of adult cabbage white butterflies from June and July in the Canterbury region of NZ.

    We launched the NZ community of iNaturalist in 2012 and there are only 11 Canterbury observations of cabbage whites in June or July. One is from 2024, two are from 2025, and 8 are from 2026. It feels like a trend.

    Also, notable amongst those observations is a cabbage white seen this month by legendary NZ lepidopterist Brian Patrick. Brian notes "my latest in season - my first Winter records!"

    inaturalist.nz/observations?mo

    #ClimateChange #Lepidoptera #Pieris #NZ #iNaturalist #Canterbury #NZ #iNaturalistNZ #insects #entomology #butterflies

  3. 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

    Ref.

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

    Photos
    © S.F.Wirth 2025

  4. 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

    Ref.

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

    Photos
    © S.F.Wirth 2025

  5. I planted a small pieris japonica bush last June. It has had flower buds since around September. They started opening a week ago. Is that normal? One way or another, I'm happy ☺️

    #bloomscrolling #pieris #flowers #aftertherain #nature #naturephotography

  6. Playing Around

    All images taken using a 50 year old Nikkor 50mm Enlarger Lens reversed mounted with a 12mm Extension tube

    #photo #photography #EnlargerLens #nikkor #ReversedMounted #flowers #hawkbit #pieris #insect #ladybug #CanonSL2