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do have a girlie passion for butterflies - even the cabbage whites are lovely to see fluttering about the garden.There are organic sprays available and also a biological control, which I really must try next year. My current method of control

soggy mess.One advantage of the rainfall has been the success of the biological control I applied to some areas of my kitchen garden. Nematodes are added to water and applied to the soil in spring. They thrive in warm, moist soil and when they come

fighting back. The eggs hatch and the ichneumon grubs then eat the insect alive, from the inside. Although they are amongst the most important of biological control agents, they are incredibly poorly studied; the few identification guides are highly