Large white butterfly I think, one of the whites anyway. As far as I know the birds do eat them but maybe there's something they like better. Pick them off a throw them on the lawn away from the cabbages (if you have a lawn)
They don't nut. They taste nasty to birds apparently which is why the cabbage white thrives while other species are in decline. Get your marigolds on heather and get picking and or squishing lol.
My brassicas are netted and under poly but they have been reduced to looking like net curtains. Next season I am going to use what I can to eliminate them. I had lovely cabbages but I had to pull them all up.
We r havin same problem as is our neighbour. My other half is out there all day everyday it seems..... pickin them off and squashin the eggs.. my neighbour is out there with an electric bat for takin out flies.. he is funny to watch... but we have loads of them here there was 10 on plants other day all at once.
We saw a cabbage white going through butterfly netting te other day! You'd have thought it was too fine. I hope they're nat all going to learn that trick, One I could cope with...
You're not the only wimp Heather, I'm embarrassed to admit that one sight of anything that wriggles and creeps and I'm indoors.
We all used to laugh at my mum flailing around in the garden with a tennis racquet, joking about her entering the highland open but she did grow the best cabbages so maybe there's something to be said for looking a nitwit.
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They don't nut. They taste nasty to birds apparently which is why the cabbage white thrives while other species are in decline. Get your marigolds on heather and get picking and or squishing lol.
thanks addict that explains a lot. oh well, big brave other half it is or me with a full on space suit and a six foot pole hehe
think I'll carry on not growing cabbages
In the sticks near Peterborough
My brassicas are netted and under poly but they have been reduced to looking like net curtains. Next season I am going to use what I can to eliminate them. I had lovely cabbages but I had to pull them all up.
Thats a shame Lynn. I hope you manage to sort it out for next year.
Nutcutlet, I hear ya!
We r havin same problem as is our neighbour. My other half is out there all day everyday it seems..... pickin them off and squashin the eggs.. my neighbour is out there with an electric bat for takin out flies.. he is funny to watch... but we have loads of them here there was 10 on plants other day all at once.
We saw a cabbage white going through butterfly netting te other day! You'd have thought it was too fine. I hope they're nat all going to learn that trick, One I could cope with...
You're not the only wimp Heather, I'm embarrassed to admit that one sight of anything that wriggles and creeps and I'm indoors.
We all used to laugh at my mum flailing around in the garden with a tennis racquet, joking about her entering the highland open
but she did grow the best cabbages so maybe there's something to be said for looking a nitwit.
I've got butterfly netting over my brassicas and have seen the little 'b,s' trying to stick their rear ends on to leaves !
@ ellieL make me laugh.. my nighbour does look like he is trying out for next years wimbledon
@sue.. yes they do get their rear ends in there dont they..and there does seem to be lots of them this year also..