What's going on guys? Welcome back to the epic gardening show. Today we're again talking about another filthy little pest that can plague your fall gardens and that would be the cabbage worm.

Boom boom boom. the cabbage worm. Boom, do do do.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

But if you've got little off-white or yellowish spots on the undersides of your radishes,

brussels sprouts, cabbage, etc, and you just saw a little green worm wandering over a leaf on your produce.

You probably have cabbage worms.

Also known as Pierreus rapae or Pierreus brassique. Do not lose hope. These are relatively easy to prevent and control.

So here is how you do it. Now the first thing to understand is that there are other types of cabbage worms that people will

confuse for the classic cabbage worm or the piersis rapae. So that would include the cabbage looper, which I just talked

about in yesterday's episode, the Tricoplusia knee, also the cabbage moth, the cabbage webworm, the orange-tip

butterfly, and the the diamondback moth.

So the life cycles of all those different bugs and their reproduction cycles may be different from the classic cabbage worm that we're talking about.

However, fortunately for us, they tend to attack

almost the same plants and you can often eliminate them in exactly the same way.

But just for interest's sake we're going to talk about

Piaras Rapae and Piaris Brassikeae or the large and small cabbage worms in today's episode.

So both of these develop into different types of butterflies.

So cabbage worms are actually just caterpillars

in their various larval forms.

So the first one again is Piaras Rapae.

That's also known as the small white or small cabbage white butterfly.

Basically, it is a very prevalent pest.

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