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    Every one is covered in them. Anything i can do or do i have to just keep picking them off daily once they get bigger?
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    You need to cover all your brassicas all the time in butterfly netting
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      Keep picking them off. BTW, your top picture looks like whitefly. The bottom one is a cabbage white caterpillar, and they develop from clusters of tiny yellow eggs laid on the underside of the leaves. If you spot them at that stage you can just scrape them off with your fingernail.

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      • #4
        White fly, spray with a soap solution and the caterpillars, pick them off and give them to the chooks!
        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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        • #5
          Thanks all. I thought only pigeons were the pests of Brussels Whitefly too huh, i seem to have more of them than the caterpillars so i'll get spraying
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          • #6
            Squish them before they get big enough to do damage.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by roitelet View Post
              White fly, spray with a soap solution
              I put up a link to an African site the other day, has anyone tried it?
              They suggest a flour & water spray, which really clogs up the whitefly
              Last edited by Two_Sheds; 12-07-2011, 07:05 AM.
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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