Can you tell me what’s causing this black spot damage in my cabbages? I pulled it out ‘cause it seems only one is affected at the moment. I dipelled for cabbage moth just a week or two ago. Is it moth? Should I dipell again? My dipel maybe a bit old; maybe not chemically effective any more.
probably snails, slugs -its been eaten by something and those little black things are droppings
SueBk said:
Can you tell me what’s causing this black spot damage in my cabbages? I pulled it out ‘cause it seems only one is affected at the moment. I dipelled for cabbage moth just a week or two ago. Is it moth? Should I dipell again? My dipel maybe a bit old; maybe not chemically effective any more.
I can see green caterpillars so go the Dipel again. Dipel will wash off with watering or rain so needs to be reapplied regularly.
bluegreen said:
SueBk said:
Can you tell me what’s causing this black spot damage in my cabbages? I pulled it out ‘cause it seems only one is affected at the moment. I dipelled for cabbage moth just a week or two ago. Is it moth? Should I dipell again? My dipel maybe a bit old; maybe not chemically effective any more.
I can see green caterpillars so go the Dipel again. Dipel will wash off with watering or rain so needs to be reapplied regularly.
true – i can see 2 grub specimens. i also see some black things that could be slugs or millipedes – so a few snail pellets might be an idea as well as the dipel.
my dipel is several years old but the packets are sealed – so if you’ve run out of sealed packets maybe buy some more.
I cut the cabbage open and took some closer photos of caterpillar and what look like eggs to me.
SueBk said:
I cut the cabbage open and took some closer photos of caterpillar and what look like eggs to me.
i see some webs and egg sacks as well – a microcosm in a plant.
I’d say green moth grubs… they shit as quick as they eat.
SueBk said:
I cut the cabbage open and took some closer photos of caterpillar and what look like eggs to me.
I’m thinking feed it to the chooks/rabbits/guinea piggies and start again. you have a whole ecology happening there!!! Looks like you have a spider trapping insects and grubs, the black things are caterpillar poos but I don’t know what the green eggs are from. White butterfly eggs are smaller and yellow I think, unless they look like this when they are more developed.
Lucky’s on the money. It’s a different moth than the white one and the grubs weave the webs and poo everywhere.
Gave it to the chookles. Figured they’d appreciate the bugs more than the piggles would. I’ll check the other’s later. If they’re infested I’ll give them to the chooks to. Start again. Live and learn.
SueBk said:
Gave it to the chookles. Figured they’d appreciate the bugs more than the piggles would. I’ll check the other’s later. If they’re infested I’ll give them to the chooks to. Start again. Live and learn.
not quite IMHO
strip the outer leaves by cutting high on the stem = the central heart might be worth eating.
i have salvaged a lot of cabbages by stripping the outer (infested) leaves.
pepe said:
SueBk said:
Gave it to the chookles. Figured they’d appreciate the bugs more than the piggles would. I’ll check the other’s later. If they’re infested I’ll give them to the chooks to. Start again. Live and learn.
not quite IMHO
strip the outer leaves by cutting high on the stem = the central heart might be worth eating.
i have salvaged a lot of cabbages by stripping the outer (infested) leaves.
