"alan.holmes" wrote in message
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"Little Paul" wrote in message
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On 2009-07-17, alan.holmes wrote:

Had a look at the sprouts yesterday, and they had caterpillars on them!

How the hell can I stop that?

Two options:
1 - Cover your sprouts with mesh netting as soon as they're outside
so that the pretty butterflies can't get to them to lay eggs on (it's
a bit late for that now though)

The funny thing is, I had covered them with mesh as soon as I had planted
them which is a bit of a puzzle!

I had a butterfly like that. I reckon it was firing single eggs through the
holes in the netting