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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Rafqa Touma

THE TRUTH ABOUT: How to handle australia s plague of cabbage chomping moths - The Untold Story

Female adult cabbage butterflies, often called cabbage moths, tend to lay their eggs on the underside of leaves.
Female adult cabbage butterflies, often called cabbage moths, tend to lay their eggs on the underside of leaves. Photograph: Alamy

An astonishing number of cabbage hornets and butterflies were “all over the place” when Prof Mark Elgar walked out of the University of Melbourne campus on to Royal Parade last Friday.

“I was really quite struck, I haven’t seen something like that before,” he said. In the bioscientist’s front garden, they were “hovering all around” the citrus plants too.

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