At the underside of a cabbage leave on can find yellow-
golden eggs. The caterpillar has a blkue-green color
with a fine yellow line on the back.
It moves slowly while eating until it transform into a
the butterfly. The butterfly rare puts more then three
egss on a leave, so there is little competation between
the catarpillars.
Cultivating cabbage can be hard, there are many enemies of
youre cabbage, the tigersnail is most
well known.
A field with flowering cabbage, it has bright citron
colored flowers and has an big attraction for the the
little and large white.
White cabbage butterfly
This is the most well-known butterfly in the Netherlands
and Belgium. On a dry summer there can be four generations
of these butterflies. They are attracted by plants that
are members of the mustard (Brassicacieae) family, of which
the cultivated cabbage is the mosten often seen. Other
members are: Charlock and Hedge Mustard
There are two types of the cabbage butterfly.
The little white or small cabbage butterfly and a large one.
The little white is by far the most often seen, and has 3 (female)
or 2 black dots (male)on the wings.
The large Cabbage white butterfly with its caterpillar.
The population of the Large white is increasing. The Large
white is a really strong flyer and is sometimes called:
Cabbage White.
what you can do
Prevention is the best thing you can do:
The best measure is that you keep youre
keep your cultivated cabbage and brassicia as
short as possible in youre garden.
Another method is the use of fly gauze.
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At the underside of a cabbage leave on can find yellow-
Cultivating cabbage can be hard, there are many enemies of 