UNBELIEVABLE !! Be aware

[growmore]

Whilst on lotty this morning I noticed that the first 4 or 5 plants in a row of purple sprouting broccoli looked a bit sparse on leaf ...I investigated and found these ..
Considering it is the 18th of November and we have had a  few nights of frost recently  I find this  unusual ..I have been at this hobby quite a while and  Don't think I have seen cabbage white caterpillars this late in the year...  :o





Suffice to say out came the spray and they have been dealt with  ..
So have a browse at yours . Looks like they still about ..     :)  cheers Jim

[growmore]

[supersprout]

:o :o :o
there must be a naturewatch somewheres that would be interested in seeing these too
o hard luck tho growmore :-\

[tim]

As you say - I thought that ours had gone by late September.

[jennym]

Guess they must be some tough northern type of caterpillar then  ;D as the ones down here (south) disappeared in the slight frost we had first few days of November.

[daisymay]

was doing a bit of tidying up in the front garden yesterday and I found a caterpillar too - was equally surprised  ???

[Halifax Town AFC]

Growmore,

I have had the same thing, my sprouts have been raped by thes caterpillars(exactly the same type thats on on your broccoli), I Sprayed the plants also.
Am not joking they stripped the leafs in days, I only had a few sprout plants because din't have room for em and my family don't like em neither(i do)
Since spraying about 3 weeks ago I ant seen owt but av not been looking neither(the sprouts are that bad) I was gonna rip em out at ground, covered in this green stuff which I think is caterpillar crap??
Next year am gonna cover em with plastic netting,see if thi works.

Graham

[OliveOil]

thanks for the photo - now i know what to look for and i havent seen those!

What i have found on the brassicas, lettuce, swiss chard and chickory is a bright green caterpillar - no hairs, very smooth and easy to squidge!  ANyone know what my caterpillars are?

[wahaj]

yea...my garden thinks it's still summer. i've got aphids, black fly, caterpillars, beatles, lady birds, flies. and those swarms to whitefly are doing my head in. i can't do to the garden in the evening without breathing them in and then coughing like mad to spit them out. yuk.

even though it's bloody freezing out there lol. i got frost bite on my hands yesterday when i was washing some rocks in water.