Cabbage butterflies

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aimee Joined: 6/21/2008 Location: Indiana Posts: 847	Posted: Sep/05/2009 9:34 AM PST My roomate thinks I should encourage the white cabbage butterflies to lay eggs on my cabbage and let the worms eat it, so the world will have more butterflies. If I want cabbage, she says, I can buy it at the store. Please help me be patient. Quote \| Reply \| Report

told2b Joined: 9/12/2006 Location: Northern, NJ Posts: 8356	Posted: Sep/05/2009 1:48 PM PST Female Cabbage White (Pieris rapae), male has only one spot. Cabbage butterflies are not much of a pest at all compared with cabbage root maggots. Attachments: Quote \| Reply \| Report

carolyncat353 Joined: 4/29/2008 Location: Westlake, La Posts: 9803	Posted: Sep/06/2009 7:37 AM PST Let her grow her own cabbage to feed the worms! (lol) Quote \| Reply \| Report

aimee Joined: 6/21/2008 Location: Indiana Posts: 847	Posted: Sep/06/2009 9:01 AM PST No kidding. Even though I looked it up and there are plenty of wild brassicas RIGHT IN OUR GARDEN (in the form of yellow mustard weeds) that the butterflies can lay eggs on, still I am reminded that monarch butterflies HAVE to lay their eggs on milkweed, and that even a repellent keeping the butterflies from my cabbage will squash the next generation of pretties as surely as if were stomping on them. Quote \| Reply \| Report