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comp13
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hi is anyone able to help me with this bug it's eating all my cabbage and lettuce etc. Thanks guys I really appreciate it.
Amateur vegetable gardener with dreams of a bigger garden one day.
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comp13
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comp13
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they're insect eggs, probably cabbage white butterfly waiting to hatch into caterpillars to eat your cabbages. I don't kill much but I'd have those off my cabbages (if Ihad any)
In the sticks near Peterborough
thanks the cabbages did not form hearts anyway so I may just let them be so I can have some nice butterflies. I don't know why I got no cabbage hearts this year.
Nor do I comp. I know more about insects than cabbages
In the sticks near Peterborough
You are correct as usual NutC, they are Large White butterfly eggs which will hatch into caterpillars with yellow stripes and black spots.
Rub them off as soon as possible, and keep checking back.
edit: comp13, you beat me to the post ... your nice butterflies will lay eggs on every brassica and nasturtium in your neighbourhood
Can't help comp with the lack of hearts though
In the sticks near Peterborough
ok I guess I will get them off...don't laugh but I have had lots of those white butterflies in the garden this summer and I was enjoying watching them so much lol bragging to my friends about my lovely butterflies. Little did I know the damage they were causing.
I don't grow cabbages so I can still enjoy them
In the sticks near Peterborough
good for you they are so lovely