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Jul 22, 2016 4:20 PM CST
Name: Rita
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sooby said:I think that's a butterfly, maybe Pieris rapae, imported cabbageworm. If it's imported cabbageworm the caterpillars don't look like yours.

http://www.maine.gov/dacf/php/...


Yup, that picture is a cabbage moth. Lays eggs on all sorts of cabbage family plants which turn into little green worms that eat, eat, eat.

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