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"Mary Fisher" writes:
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| No, the ones on nasturtiums are cabbage whites caterpillars
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| So why don't they look like cabbage white larvae?

"Cabbage white" is used to refer to Pieris brassicae, P. rapae,
either of them (indeterminately) or any Pieris butterfly. The
caterpillars of the first two look very different.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

indeed, one being a plain bright green the other being dark green and
black, both sorts will eat nasturtiums but it is normally the black
patterned ones that devastate them.
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea