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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: Uncle Ted on October 26, 2012, 17:39:15

Title: What is doing this..........
Post by: Uncle Ted on October 26, 2012, 17:39:15
  Hi all,
   for the last two months or so, something has been eating my brassicas. The soft parts of the leaves are going  leaving a 'leaf skeleton'. I have surrounded them with slug pellets, but no dead slugs evident, I have looked carefully no sign of caterpillars or anything else on the damaged leaves.
   The mystery deepens, when I walk my dog in the morning across a field that had rape in it  in the Summer and now has some  sort of 'beet' growing, right across thy field  all the little plants are showing the same damage I am experiencing! Just wondered if anyone had any ideas what the culprit could be?
Title: Re: What is doing this..........
Post by: davyw1 on October 26, 2012, 20:48:00
Could be a cabbage looper which is a small green catapiller have a closer look bothe under and on top of the leaves
Title: Re: What is doing this..........
Post by: chriscross1966 on November 02, 2012, 12:57:44
Slugs are doing that this year too...