Cabbage White - on my radishes

[Two_Sheds]

I've netted* all my cabbages, so the little butterflies have laid their eggs on my radishes instead!
They're teeming with (Large White butterfly ) caterpillars. They'll be compost/bird food by sun-down

* the netting was working, until these gales blew them apart while I was on my week's hols. I took nets off to weed, and there's a dozen Small White caterpillars & also Cabbage Looper & Cabbage Moth caterpillars on each plant. That's four different sorts of cabbage caterpillars! Very well disguised too, the same colour as the leaf.

1) Large Cabbage White:http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.c...white_lge1.jpg
2) Small Cabbage White:http://popgen.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/c...ris.rapae5.jpg
3) Cabbage Looper: http://insects.tamu.edu/images/insects/color/cloop1.jpg
4) Cabbage Moth: http://www.hdc.org.uk/files/B7_3.jpg

[burnie]

I think radish are brassicas aren't they?

[Two_Sheds]

Yes, they are.
The radishes have had all their leaves stripped, and the caterpillars have eaten the charlock (wild mustard) too (which is a good thing, as it's a huge nuisance). Charlock - Weed information - Organic Weed Management