Mar
11
2010
What are the white moths flying around my vege garden? What do I do about them?
Posted by greenthumb in Gardening Questions
I am determined to have a garden this year without the bugs or diseases getting through to them first (hasn’t worked in the past). I also am trying to keep it organic since I have 2 small children. Any thoughts?
Cover them? How? Isn’t there any other way?
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These little guys are the cabbage worm butterflies. They lay eggs that become cabbage worms, and cabbage loopers that eat all the holes in your greens and broccoli. If you are willing to use an organic bioinsecticide, Bacteria thuringiensis is effective on the hatched larvae (the worms). You can find Bt online, or should be able to locate it at your local nursery. The hatched worms feed at night, are green or green with at thin yellow stripe down it’s back.
You can use row covers (make a half hoop with rabbit fence over your plants and cover it with a light colored sheet, or burlap, or shadecloth, and brick it down to keep it from blowing away) to keep the butterflies from laying their eggs in the first place. Their season ends with June, end of June.
u should cover the veggies just water 2 times a day in the mornin and in the evening..the moths love them they lay eggs exspecialy cabbage in the leaves..
Make sure what they are as they may be pollinators. Catch one and take it to a nursery to find out for sure.