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Watch out for caterpillars!

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:48 pm
by Colin Miles
My early cabbages were outside hardening off (joke - only 76.6F here!) and the small whites had already laid their eggs.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:41 pm
by jopsy
funny you should mention haterpillars
we had loads last weekend-dd was collecting them :shock:

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:10 am
by Malk
I saw a cabbage white on Friday. A record?

Re: Watch out for caterpillars!

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:17 pm
by Deb P
Colin Miles wrote:My early cabbages were outside hardening off (joke - only 76.6F here!) and the small whites had already laid their eggs.


Gave my brassicas a quick once over just before I planted them today......several small eggs on the undersides of the leaves, obviously got them when mine were being hardened off! Little s*ds! :roll:

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:27 pm
by Tigger
They're awash here already.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:03 am
by Malk
I saw a bright green catapillar on Monday, but didn't know whether to kill it or not. But when I went back to look at it, it was being eaten by ants. I hope it wasn't some lovely rare butterfly.

any ideas what it was? Looked brighter than the cabbage white catapillars but maybe because it was on dirt rather than a green leaf.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:05 pm
by Belinda