How to Manage Cabbage Worms & Moths in the Garden

Are you noticing little holes throughout your leafy greens and brassicas (such as kale, cabbage, and broccoli)? If so, you might be dealing with cabbage worms (or slugs - but that's another video for another day!). While they do cause some crop damage, fear not as they are fairly easy to manage! In today's video we're going to use the 5 Steps of Integrated Pest Management to ensure we are properly identifying Cabbage Worms and Moths, and managing them appropriately! By the end of this video, cabbage worms will be a problem of the past!

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[jeffreyrossi]

Yes, we have lots of the cabbage butterflies in ND also. One simple remedy I've found is simple with little if no impact on the environment for these critters and other bugs, especially one's like Japanese betels. Take a coffee cup size cup with a handle put a very very small amount (few drops) of mild dishwashing soap in it, run the faucet strong to cause a lather. Just go around and knock the offenders in the soapy water and they suffocate quickly. Great for the faint of heart and you don't end up with bug sticky fingers.

[ansabulfone]

When using floating row covers, they have to be “sealed” against the ground or the cabbage moths will find a way in.

[paulinebrus]

great video! 🙂 one other thing you also can do, if you don't want the butterfly's to extinct, is plant a few somewhere else in the garden and let them eat those completely.

[teresamcwilliam]

I've read that plants that get nibbled by pests actually increase the nutrition in the plant! I'm not sure if this is true, but I thought that was interesting.

[polarbear]

1st year gardening & these are devouring my brussell sprouts. The smaller completely gone. Are they still able to recover and produce at this stage?