On 1 Jul, 19:27, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
Goosegogs?

Don't often hear that - where are you?

Mary

Mary,

Orignally Rochdale, but now Exeter, but it could also be from father-
in-law - originally Sheffield but now Taunton.

I'm now offically a southern softy!

Regards

Steve

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I hate using any pesticide but desperate conditions demand desperate
solutions. The sawfly will also attack other plants, Solomon's Seal
and some
ribes.

Not to mention nasturtiums.

Is THAT what they are!

I remember them from my childhood, hadn't made the connection beause I
didn't know anything else then.

I think so - the pattern and colours of the caterpillars seems to say
so. They also have a go at horseradish, if memory serves.

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On 1 Jul, 19:27, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
Goosegogs?

Don't often hear that - where are you?

Mary

Mary,

Orignally Rochdale, but now Exeter, but it could also be from father-
in-law - originally Sheffield but now Taunton.

Ah, it's the Yorkshire connection then. Or northern at least.

I'm now offically a southern softy!

Nobody's perfect ...

Mary

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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

I hate using any pesticide but desperate conditions demand desperate
solutions. The sawfly will also attack other plants, Solomon's Seal
and some
ribes.

Not to mention nasturtiums.

Is THAT what they are!

I remember them from my childhood, hadn't made the connection beause I
didn't know anything else then.

Mary



No, the ones on nasturtiums are cabbage whites caterpillars
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

I hate using any pesticide but desperate conditions demand desperate
solutions. The sawfly will also attack other plants, Solomon's Seal
and some
ribes.

Not to mention nasturtiums.

Is THAT what they are!

I remember them from my childhood, hadn't made the connection beause I
didn't know anything else then.

Mary



No, the ones on nasturtiums are cabbage whites caterpillars

So why don't they look like cabbage white larvae?

Mary

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| No, the ones on nasturtiums are cabbage whites caterpillars
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| So why don't they look like cabbage white larvae?

"Cabbage white" is used to refer to Pieris brassicae, P. rapae,
either of them (indeterminately) or any Pieris butterfly. The
caterpillars of the first two look very different.


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Nick Maclaren.

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No, the ones on nasturtiums are cabbage whites caterpillars

Mottled green and black/brown?

All the cabbage white caterpillars I've seen have been - er -
caterpillar green in hue.

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No, the ones on nasturtiums are cabbage whites caterpillars

Mottled green and black/brown?

All the cabbage white caterpillars I've seen have been - er -
caterpillar green in hue.

Same here. The sawfly ones are bluish.

Mary

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| All the cabbage white caterpillars I've seen have been - er -
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| Same here. The sawfly ones are bluish.

That's Pieris rapae. P. brassicae ones are blackish and yellowish.


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| No, the ones on nasturtiums are cabbage whites caterpillars
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| So why don't they look like cabbage white larvae?

"Cabbage white" is used to refer to Pieris brassicae, P. rapae,
either of them (indeterminately) or any Pieris butterfly. The
caterpillars of the first two look very different.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

indeed, one being a plain bright green the other being dark green and
black, both sorts will eat nasturtiums but it is normally the black
patterned ones that devastate them.
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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No, the ones on nasturtiums are cabbage whites caterpillars

Mottled green and black/brown?

All the cabbage white caterpillars I've seen have been - er -
caterpillar green in hue.

The green caterpillars are small white not cabbage white. Though see the
post above about the different species which are all referred to as
cabbage white
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Kay