How can you recognize a cabbage white?
Adults have white wings with black spots on the forewings. The caterpillars are velvety green with faint yellow lengthwise lines. Other white butterflies can look similar.
What do cabbage white caterpillars eat?
They feed on cabbage-family plants, including broccoli and kale. Their chewing can leave irregular holes between the larger leaf veins.
Is a cabbageworm a worm?
It is a butterfly larva. After feeding and growing, it pupates and later emerges as an adult butterfly.
Try one observation
Look at one cabbage-family leaf without touching any insect. Note both leaf damage and any visible caterpillar; do not assume they have the same cause.
Observe without handling or collecting. These clues are a starting point, not a confirmed identification.