Hi Everybody,
I have experienced a caterpillar attack on my broccoli and then similar-appearing damage to my cauliflower.
The broccoli was an obvious victim, since I caught them in the act, swarming on the head of a couple of plants one morning. The cauliflower have recieved lots of holes in the the leaves, just like a previous symptom on the broccoli. And I also found a bunch of apparant larvae on one of the cauliflower leaves.
However, other vegetables in the same area were left alone.
Is this just a coincidence? Just a random, one-time distribution of the caterpillar population? Or does this indicate some dietary preference?
This specific gang of perpetrators are each about a centemetre or so long, neon-green, and walk with a sort of "inch-worm" type wave through their body (but the legs are obvious.) I think the butterfly version is a small, white variety.
Comments? Thanks.
-V.