OK.  Here's your gardening lesson for today:  You do NOT want these in your garden.  Because once they take hold, you lose the battle.

 

These are the caterpillars of Cabbage White butterflies.  The butterflies lay their eggs on the undersides of leaves in the Brassica family.  That includes cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, mustard, and arugula. Then the caterpillars EAT HOLES in the leaves.  

 

I see twenty-one on this one mustard leaf.  That leaf is no longer on that plant.  :}  I picked it off and squished the little munchers.  I check every day, and pick off as many as I can.  But it is a never-ending process.  

 

I don't want to try to control Nature, just my little corner of it.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!