{"id":2500,"date":"2014-09-30T20:07:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chelifer.com\/?page_id=2500"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:14:21","slug":"eggs-of-large-white-butterfly-peirie-brassicae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chelifer.com\/?page_id=2500","title":{"rendered":"Eggs of Large White Butterfly, Peirie brassicae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As someone who grows their own veg. the very low numbers of Large Whites , aka Cabbage White, butterflies have been a godsend compared with last year when my brassicas were under constant attack if they insects managed, and they did, to penetrate the netting covering the plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course this year is the year that I wanted to get hold of eggs in order to photograph them and it was not until August that a batch of eggs appeared on my young broccoli plants, the only ones I have seen on my plants. These appeared at an inconvenient time as I was going away so they were popped in the 'fridge and forgotten about. On finding them ten days later they had begun to hatch. This presented a good opportunity to photograph the hatching caterpillars. Then in early September a fellow allotment holder presented me with a batch of eggs which I was able to photograph before they hatched. The results of these two batches are given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n