A flock of white butterflys

[Slarti]

just fluttered by above the hight of the annex flat roof.

Is this a normal thing to see?

Must have been about 8 of them.


Slarti

[JohnnyCyclops]

Probably Cabbage White butterflies. The caterpillars have been feasting on my Brocolli in the garden (Brassica Massacre, per this link below!). I've seen four or five white butterflies 'dancing' in our garden today. Don't seem to like the Kale as much, but with both planted near each other I guess they go for the tastier/easier option?

https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/cabbag ... -massacre/

[midnightcatprowl]

Not that I try to grow cabbage but I can certainly attest to how much the cabbage white caterpillar likes nasturtiums! I can hear them munching away in the flowerbed outside my back door right now...

[JohnnyCyclops]

Not that I try to grow cabbage but I can certainly attest to how much the cabbage white caterpillar likes nasturtiums! I can hear them munching away in the flowerbed outside my back door right now...

Which is why I recall those growing veggies are encouraged to pop a few nasturtiums into the veggie plot to act as a decoy and keep the little beasts off the human edibles.

[tjh290633]

We had a talk about wild life a few weeks ago, and were told that there are about 6 different varieties of the "cabbage white". Number of spots, shading, etc. but I would have thought that a flock might be down to them all feeding on their desired plants and flying away together.

TJH

[Slarti]

We had a talk about wild life a few weeks ago, and were told that there are about 6 different varieties of the "cabbage white". Number of spots, shading, etc. but I would have thought that a flock might be down to them all feeding on their desired plants and flying away together.

TJH

Probably from someone else's garden then, as we have not much other than grasses.

And brambles.

Slarti

[UncleEbenezer]

We had a talk about wild life a few weeks ago, and were told that there are about 6 different varieties of the "cabbage white". Number of spots, shading, etc. but I would have thought that a flock might be down to them all feeding on their desired plants and flying away together.

TJH

It's the caterpillars that like your cabbages.

The adult butterflies drink only the nectar from your flowers. Like bees, they are pollinators for flowering plants, though their tastes are not entirely for the same flowers as the bees (to the extent that one can generalise, bees tend to like thicker, richer nectar than butterflies).