"ajr" wrote in message ...
Good morning,

A bit surprised to see about 20 caterpillars eating my winter cabbages this
morning. They were roughly 2-3cm long, 'hairy' and black / yellow.

What were they, and more to the point what the hell were they doing in the
garden in November?!?!! I assume that the lack of frost has meant that they
have been happily munching away since the early autumn - *******s.

Cheers,


Andrew

Do they look like these ?

http://www.srbild.de/bild/bild598.jpg

These are the ones that attack Verbascum. But thats normally in June.
Maybe you have a batch that have hatched, found no Verbascums to eat
and so are making do with whatever they can find.