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Hi I have just started to grow vegetables this year and have been successful with most of it. However, something has been eating my cauliflowers. I have had the caterpillars from the cabbage whites which I have kept in check . The main problem

,should I cut each flowering head off or any suggestions. On my rasperrys and blackberries plants I have sprayed with repellant but still catapillars exist. Please reply Gerry. Not sure what you mean about a repellent for caterpillars? Have the bushes

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plants uncut to provide winter cover for wildlife) but found that the next year the flowers had all been eaten when they were small by caterpillars of the delphinium moth.  They overwinter inside the hollow stems.. Delphinium moth? I havent come across

island, however today I've had a closer look and most of the leaves have been stripped off. leaving very few fruit on spindley sticks. Any thoughts on what pest does this? Could be gooseberry saw fly caterpillar-they can strip a plant bare overnight http

patch is at the back of a shrub and the other at the side of a compost bin so they don't really bother me. Nettles are absolutely essential for the butterflies of our 5 most popular species to raise their caterpillars. These butterflies require stinging

completely different foodplants. Butterflies in the spring emergence lay their eggs on holly and their caterpillars feed on the developing buds. When these insects reach adulthood in late-summer they lay their eggs on ivy flower buds. At least

. The first is relatively straightforward: the mullein moth caterpillar. These are stripy chaps that start quite skinny, but rapidly become as fat as witchity grubs by eating verbascum leaves at a terrifying rate. I grow the gorgeous Verbascum bombyciferum

Dulwich). All ichneumons are parasitic, laying their eggs in a wide range of insects, but especially moth and butterfly caterpillars. The venom injected at the same time contains an immunosuppressant, preventing the immune system of the host insect from