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28-05-2020, 01:11 PM
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Anyone recognise this chaps?

Munching my Mullein .


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28-05-2020, 01:13 PM
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Re: Anyone recognise this chaps?

Originally Posted by Muddy ->
Munching my Mullein .
Yes, his extended family weren't practising social distancing on my broccoli and kale yesterday!
I sent them on a field trip!

Cabbage Whites I think.
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28-05-2020, 01:16 PM
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They look like cabbage white butterfly caterpillars to me.
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28-05-2020, 01:17 PM
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Yep, Perce!
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31-05-2020, 07:25 PM
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I have found out ( an old countryman told me ) that this is not a cabbage white but the caterpillar Of the Mullein Moth .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullein_moth.

However all have gone this afternoon and I think the peasant has eaten them .

He was in the garden this afternoon and has also disgraced himself by digging up the sweet peas. ( I have forgotten to put out any bird food for two afternoons In a row )
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21-06-2020, 08:14 AM
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Following the first wave of mullein moth Caterpillars the poor Mullein has had barely time to recover itself when another lot Has appeared .
This plant which grows huge of left alone is having a hard time ;(
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22-06-2020, 09:24 AM
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Re: Anyone recognise this chaps?

Originally Posted by Muddy ->
I have found out ( an old countryman told me ) that this is not a cabbage white but the caterpillar Of the Mullein Moth .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullein_moth.

However all have gone this afternoon and I think the peasant has eaten them .

He was in the garden this afternoon and has also disgraced himself by digging up the sweet peas. ( I have forgotten to put out any bird food for two afternoons In a row )

Sorry, I am laughing because I have an image of a straw hat and smock wearing country bumpkin eating your caterpillars
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22-06-2020, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Glanny ->
Sorry, I am laughing because I have an image of a straw hat and smock wearing country bumpkin eating your caterpillars


I hope we get treated to a drawing of a pheasant soon!
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22-06-2020, 06:22 PM
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I think all the cabbage whites were all here decimating my brassicas!
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24-06-2020, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Glanny ->
Sorry, I am laughing because I have an image of a straw hat and smock wearing country bumpkin eating your caterpillars
Ha Ha I blame the iPad .

I wish something would eat them as I can’t kill anything they are muching on and they are big . The Mullein moth must be quite sizeable .
 
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