Cabbage moth
and dusk, hiding in the crop during the day. Several days after emerging from their pupae the female moths lay clusters of 20 to 100 eggs on the underside [...] brassicae) are gregarious, eating the edge of the leaves on which they were laid. From the third instar onwards, they disperse over the whole plant. There are six [...] lateral longitudinal stripe. The full-grown caterpillar varies in colour from green or brown to black. In younger instars, the relatively large head capsule