What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. My name's Kevin.

Today we are talking about the elusive and annoying cabbage looper,

also known as Tric Plucia Knee.

I hope I said that right, not very good at Latin,

but these are an annoying pest, I gotta be honest.

And as we move into fall gardening,

we have to think about how to deal with these little buggers.

So what are they?

How do we get rid of them?

And in general, like what can we do to make sure that we just don't deal with this in our garden

so first of all we're going to talk about the types of cabbage loopers so there are moth or

butterfly insects from the lepidopter order which are commonly confused with cabbage

loopers. So these would include the cabbage worm which I have covered as well.

The cabbage moth, the cabbage webworm

the orange tip butterfly and the diamondback moth.

There are a lot of different

little guys that can be attacking your garden and look similar.

So we should talk about how to deal with those as well.

But for this particular piece we're actually going to focus on just the cabbage looper

Tricoplusia knee.

First of all, what is the deal with that name,

Looper?

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