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ina
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Goodies or badies?
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August 20, 2004, 17:11:14 »
Are these critters good of bad? I hope they just make pretty butterflies, if not I'm going to mow down all the plants they are on.
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Hugh_Jones
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Re:Goodies or badies?
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August 20, 2004, 18:26:08 »
Ina, although the colours are not quite right (the darker bits should be more greenish), this looks like a near perfect picture of the caterpillar of the dear old cabbage large white butterfly (
pieris brassicae
) busily demolishing a nasturtium leaf.
Don`t let it get near your brassicas!
If you pick off the caterpillars by hand and drop them in your goldfish pond the goldfish should love them.
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tim
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Posts: 18,607
Just like the old days!
Re:Goodies or badies?
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Reply #2 on:
August 20, 2004, 18:30:07 »
Hugh - are you questioning Ina's new camera capability?? Brave chap! = Tim
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ina
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Posts: 1,945
Re:Goodies or badies?
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Reply #3 on:
August 20, 2004, 18:45:22 »
Hahaha Tim, Hugh just doesn't know how sensitive I am about anyone questioning my camara's capabilities. Never mind, I forgive anything for sound advice.
That's it then for the caterpillars, the nasturtiums are going! Would frogs eat them? No fish pond but a canal with lots of frogs bordering the lottie. I don't grow any brassica due to clubroot in the soil but I don't want to spoil the fun of the other allotmenteers at the complex.
Thanks for the warning Hugh.
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Hugh_Jones
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Re:Goodies or badies?
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August 20, 2004, 18:49:57 »
tim, I would never
dare
question
any
of Ina`s capabilities.
I think the problem is simply that Ina`s camera regiusters in
Vermeer
colours, while my monitor only registers in
Constable
or
Gainsborough
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tim
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Posts: 18,607
Just like the old days!
Re:Goodies or badies?
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August 20, 2004, 18:55:54 »
To think that, at 10, I used to sun-print my home developed negatives - & later went on to develop & print Dufaycolour in the late '40s. = Tim
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Mrs Ava
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Re:Goodies or badies?
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August 22, 2004, 22:29:56 »
ooooo Ina, for me they are the biggest and baddest baddies of all! They have decimated my brocolli! And they are 'orrible to squash! But, now I know fishes will eat them I think the kids and I will get up to the plot tomorrow with a couple of jam jars and the kids can go caterpillar hunting and then feed them to their fishy friends! ;D
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Multiveg
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Re:Goodies or badies?
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August 23, 2004, 22:34:40 »
Maybe the cabbage whites prefer the nasturtiums? One year, having read a book on companion planting (think it was a translation from Dutch?), I planted nasturtiums next to my dad's french beans as we had problems with blackfly the year before - not a single aphid on the beans, but my nasturtiums looked a bit worse for wear!
Maybe you should try nasturtiums as a trap crop...
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cflossy
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Re:Goodies or badies?
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August 25, 2004, 19:41:17 »
I planted nasturtiums next to my cabbages and the caterpillers absolutely devastated the cabbages but did not even look at the nasturtiums >:( , I was picking at least what seems like 100 a night off. even had nightmares about the blighters!
the cabbages and the caterpillers had to go. :'(
have cocooned my puple sprouting broccoli tho. I defy them to get in!!!!
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Doris_Pinks
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Re:Goodies or badies?
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August 25, 2004, 22:54:01 »
Plant my nasturtiums in front of my runners every year........the black fly feast on my flowers and seem to leave the beans alone! ;D
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ina
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Re:Goodies or badies?
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August 26, 2004, 17:50:43 »
So, baddies it is. I know what they look like, they won't get a second chance.
Thanks all.
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