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THERE’S no such species as the cabbage white butterfly, though you wouldn’t know it from my garden where any brassicas left uncovered during the summer soon have their leaves skeletonised by caterpillars.
There are in fact two species, the large white and the small white, whose larvae cause such annoyance to veg growers.
By October these butterflies are disappearing from gardens, so there are no more eggs being laid on cabbages, purple sprouting broccoli, kale and the rest.
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