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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: tim on September 07, 2006, 18:02:49

Title: The Cabbage White
Post by: tim on September 07, 2006, 18:02:49
Need advice -

1. How many clusters of eggs can one c/w lay?

2. How long is the life cycle - from egg to c/w?

Our brassica are covered to the ground - where they are folded over - & STILL the little darlings sidle in somehere.
Title: Re: The Cabbage White
Post by: Plum on September 07, 2006, 19:12:01
I think they must lay their eggs nearby and the tiny caterpillars crawl through the mesh. Definitly no eggs on brassicas but I do find really tiny caterpilllars inside mesh. Some grow a little bigger before I squash them. The mesh is firmly secured all the way round
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