white moths

[ms_lizzie]

My cabbages have come to be loved by a stream of white moths. I wanted to try an organic means of decreasing the pest problem, but I could not find one.

Any suggestions?

 

[ZiSunka]

Those are the "cabbage worm" moths. They are laying eggs on your cabbages that will hatch into thousands of lovely cabbage-eating worms that will destroy your crop.

Use dish detergent to wash the whole cabbages, and keep washing them every day until you harvest your crop. It's the only organic way...

 

[ms_lizzie]

I actually would, but I do not live by my garden...it may have to be chemicals or else I lose the cabbage!

 

[ZiSunka]

Chemicals work!

 

[Icystwolf]

The other alternative is a fungus, the spores actually eat the moth within hours. And the caterpillars/ worms also get devoured by the fungi....and it's spreads as well, because fungi uses spores...

but I've seen the video of the moth and worm slowly collapsing in because of the fungi, and the fungi kinda spreading on the surface....it's like a horror movie.....

But if you really love your crops...actually depends where you live...they may not allow this bio-stuff due to environmental reasons...

 

[ms_lizzie]

What environmental reasons? What else does the fungus do?