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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.


what an elegant solution, I'll use that idea. Thanks

One more trick. I put the little fake butterflys on the tiny bamboo
sate sticks then push these sticks into the tops of bigger bamboo
staking sticks.




Just remember if you try this to watch your eyes. Is far better to use
something like the plastic bread bag sealer thingos and to cover any sharp
bits.

Richard