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List of Lepidoptera that feed on Brassica
Brassica
species are used as
food plants
by the larvae of a number of
Lepidoptera
species including:
Arctiidae
*
Giant leopard moth
*
Hypercompe abdominalis
*
Hypercompe indecisa
Crambidae
*
Cabbage webworm
*
Cross-striped cabbageworm
*
Purplebacked cabbageworm
Geometridae
*
Foxglove pug
- recorded on
Brassica
in
Malta
*
Garden carpet
Hepialidae
*
Common swift
*
Ghost moth
Noctuidae
*
Alfalfa looper
- western US
*
Angle shades
*
Beet armyworm
*
Cabbage looper
*
Cabbage moth
*
Garden dart
*
The Gothic
*
Heart and club
*
Heart and dart
*
Large yellow underwing
*
The nutmeg
*
Setaceous Hebrew character
*
Turnip moth
*
Zebra caterpillar
Pieridae
*
Pieris
rapae
-
small white
*
Pieris brassicae
-
large white
*
Pontia protodice
- southern cabbageworm or
checkered white
Plutellidae
*
Diamondback moth