cabbage white pests

[Aberdeenplotter]

^ Birds don't eat cabbage white caterpillars, they taste nasty (like sprouts)

TS, you been practicing for "get me out of here" in the jungle? Interestingly wasps seem to predate on the caterpillars so they must like sprouts

[buzzingtalk]

I have my brassicas in a bed mixed with my squash plants so can't enviromesh as pollinators won't get through...i checked them over last week and found tiny little white butterflies, quite a few, but no eggs of yet? i found one great big green catarpiller and moved it on...nowt too bad yet.

[arpoet]

I always scatter white turnip seeds in my cabbage bed as the smell is ruputed to be off putting to the C/W's.. it is working wel againl.. i was down the lottie weeding this morning and not a sign of them.
Roger
PS.. raining now

[Two_Sheds]

Interestingly wasps seem to predate on the caterpillars

Yep, a parasitic wasp. I looked into this ~ thinking about their possible application as a good predator. Unfortunately the caterpillar keeps on eating (in fact it eats even more) while the wasp's larvae grow inside it