Topic: Do Hoverflies eat Cabbage White Butterfly Eggs?

[lavenderlux]

There's loads of cabbage white butterflies about on our allotments but also lots of hoverflies, especially round my sprout plants.  So far as I can see, I have no butterfly eggs (or caterpillars) on my sprout plants and I wondered if the hoverflies are eating the newly laid eggs, because there's areas on the underside of the sprout leaves which look like there might have been butterfly eggs there.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Many hoverfly larvae go for aphids, though there's a wide range of diets to be found. The adults feed on nectar.