We've been cultivating butterflies.
Normally this would be a lovely thing to do. But it has been accidental, and worse, it has meant the total destruction of our cabbage patch:
Normally this would be a lovely thing to do. But it has been accidental, and worse, it has meant the total destruction of our cabbage patch:
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| Holy Cabbage! |
This is Pieris brassicae, the Cabbage White; the caterpillars are at the fifth instar or stage of development. We'd spotted the tiny yellow eggs...but by then the damage was largely done.
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| 5-a-day caterpillar |
No sauerkraut this winter, at the Croft. Too bad...
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