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snail repellent
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow writes:
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. Why bother making plastic b'flies? Just catch some real ones, add a dab of wood glue and fix them to the end of sticks that you can move around your plants as needed! That way you reduce the population of moths into the bargain! But I admit the real ones are not as rain resistant as the plastic replicas. I think you are right about them being territorial. I recall many a time seeing a white moth lazily bobbing around my father's cabbage patch until it neared another when one would zoom into the path of the first until they seemed to momentarily collide and then one would leap away to put some distance between them. At the time I assumed I was witnessing an attempt at romance, and subsequent rebuff, but now that you have pointed it out, this behaviour could have been a moth protecting its patch. For Australian readers: Noisy miner and Indian mynah birds just love catching moths on the wing. Currawongs are good at it, too. -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
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