Our
rocket plant has been looking a little poorly of late. I had assumed it was just
feeling the heat, though I have been watering it diligently. Today, on closer inspection, I realised it is playing reluctant host to a small army of cabbage white caterpillars, the
so-called "bane of allotment holders all over the British Isles".
I let them be, in the hope that they will pupate soon and the rocket plant will bounce back from this ordeal. I would also like to see the chrysalides, and maybe even the emergence of butterflies.
Cabbage whites have cool-looking eyes; here is one I photographed earlier.
2 comments:
No follow up? Where are the butterflies? Did the rocket plant make it? Tchah, what are these cliffhangers.
They just disappeared one day (or more likely, pupated where I couldn't find them). The rocket plant survived for a few more months before it succumbed to the cold.
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