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cabbage moth
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cabbage moth
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants


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Standing on a brick kitchen floor until my knees ached, having to fetch draft horses that broke through fences on a daily basis, wanting to weep when cabbage moths or drought destroyed crops I had carefully nurtured, cutting oats with a sickle so slick with sweat it was hard to grasp?
The joy of growing Brassicas in winter is that there are no cabbage moths or butterflies around to lay those irritating eggs that hatch into hundreds of pale green leaf-chewing caterpillars.
 
 
 
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