Egg laying

[ian john waller]

In message <85cm62$coh8$1 at newssvr03-int.news.prodigy.com>, Sunsol
<SUNSOL at prodigy.net> writes
>
>I have a copy of the book "Butterfly and Caterpillar " by Barrie Watts. In
>it is a photo of a cabbage white laying a group of eggs.  I have never seen
>cabbage white eggs in groups. Do you think she was drugged?
>
IMHO, the cabbage white butterfly does not exist, 
but is a 'loose' term given to two different butterflies.

Large White (Pieris brassicae)
Small White (Pieris rapae) 

If the butterfly in the photo has laided a group of eggs, it is probably
a large white, as small whites lay singulary.

Although I have not seen the book you mention.

-- 
ian john waller