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Are these cabbage worm eggs
Flower bird
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Does any one know what these are...there are loads of them under the camelia leaves .......each year there is an infestaion of cabbage worm in the garden i care for (i think they are cabbage worm..longish green type caterpillars)...are these the eggs.....????
they are even under the eleagnus leaves.....i sprayed with detergent and water hoping it would lodge them off but nothing happened...if they are cabbage worm i want to nip them in the bud before they can do much damage......in fact whatever they are i am sure they need dealing with....any ideas?????
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What are cabbage worms?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I will need to be very patient..i think there could be well over a hundred of them...hehehe
They grow into those white butterflies nutcutlet....
I'd rather find out what something is before I go around killing things indiscriminately.
If you read this thread http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/fruit-andamp-veg/red-currant--spikey-caterpillars/98011.html you'll get what I'm on about.
Let's try to identify them - anyone got any ideas?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Flowerbird- I've never heard of cabbage worms either - do you mean cabbage butterfly caterpillars?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well i just googled cabbage worm and they're cabbage white butterfly larvae
caterpillars to you and me.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Those aren't cabbage white eggs, they're small and yellow, like these
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry - your post wasn't there when I asked. The small cabbage white has green caterpillars. The big one has hairy caterpillars I think
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi Fairy
Over a hundred doesn't sound too much of an infestation. They will have been laid there to eat the leaves. I'd have towait and see what they turn into.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Having checked the RHS page on Camellia problems, I think these are the eggs of the cushion scale insect.
If you click on the 5th picture along on this page http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=771 you'll see what I mean.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.