"If you think of
cabbage white caterpillars, you need other insects (such as wasps) and birds to eat them, but cabbages are not flowering.
| CHECK for
cabbage white butterfly eggs and remove.
| CHECK for
cabbage white butterfly eggs under cabbage leaves and remove.
Distract nuisance pests - Use nasturtiums, which are great for attracting pollinators, but they also attract aphids and
cabbage white butterflies, so be prepared to plant them as sacrificial plants to draw pests from other plants.
Sow nasturtium seeds in situ on the allotment where they can be used to trap aphids and act as a decoy for flea beetles, slugs and the caterpillars of
cabbage white butterflies.
The
Cabbage White Butterfly Moon is new at 11:04 a.m.
To isolate effects of salt, Snell-Rood and colleagues followed up their monarch study with a test of
cabbage white butterflies (Pieris rapae), which cooperate in the lab by growing on a highly controllable artificial diet.
Cabbage white caterpillars can spoil crops Keep your eye on emerging cabbage leaves for tell-tale holes and pick off any
cabbage white caterpillars you find before they do any more damage.
| Check over brassicas for caterpillars of the
cabbage white butterfly and pick off any you find.
Protecting everything with netting is a tiresome job but we're in the
cabbage white season and those pesky pheasants are after everything I plant!
Watch out for
cabbage white butterflies and caterpillars.