Hosts: beets, broccoli, cabbage, cantaloupe ... older larvae eat large holes in leaves. Description: Eggs are size of pinhead, yellowish white to green, and can occur as one or in clusters ...

Several eggs may be laid on each plant over a period ... They grow to about 1 inch long. Cabbage looper caterpillars are the larvae of a grayish colored moth. You generally will not see these ...

Females lay eggs during the night on leaves of the host plant. Members of the Brassicaceae, the cabbage, family are preferred but more than 100 plants can host looper larvae. Larvae hatch in a few ...

Cabbage looper caterpillars are able to alter the expression ... The researchers also found that the eggs of parents fed on a bacterial diet showed different gene expression patterns to eggs ...

and the oblong eggs are white to yellow and laid on the end on the undersides of leaves. Imported cabbageworms are often confused with cabbage loopers and diamondback moth larvae. With no legs in ...

Q:I thought I had bought Brussels sprout plants, but it looks as if they may be cauliflower! Anyway, I do hope that you can identify these eggs on the underside of the leaves. I put some in a jar ...

Looper caterpillars get their name from their distinctive locomotion — arching their middle section by drawing up their back legs and inching along leaves and stems of plants. Unfortunately ...

scouting a good place to lay the next generation of caterpillar eggs. And if they weren’t eying your cabbage leaves for this purpose, well, then they wouldn’t be called cabbage loopers ...