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Old 14-09-2006, 04:33 PM posted to aus.gardens,rec.gardens,rec.gardens.edible
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"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message

I'd like to try it with cabbage worms......


Om were you thinking of the cabbage grubs that are laid by the white
cabbage butterflies? If you were then this does work. Make up some
fake cabbage butterflies (I use the white opaque plastic form old milk
cartons) and mark then so that they have the black markings of real
cabbage butterflies with a felt tip pen and then put them on bamboo
stakes and put them around your cabbages. The cabbage butterfly is
territorial and will go elsewhere if it thinks that that cabbage is
already taken by another cabbage butterfly.