What pests made these??

Carlh80 · « **on:** May 21, 2020, 19:58 »

Hi I’ve started growing some vegetables, noticed some plants have been a meal for some form of pest. I found a cluster of tiny yellow yoga on the underneath of the leaves on the broccoli plants, didn’t take a picture at the time.
Also my broccoli leaves have been a meal.
Are these just caterpillars? Or something else as I’ve not seen any pests about.
Also what is the best non chemical way of getting rid??

Thanks.

New shoot · « **Reply #1 on:** May 22, 2020, 10:00 »

Yellow eggs are from cabbage white butterflies, but the the damage to the broccoli looks like slugs to me. There are various non-chemical routes like beer traps, or spreading crushed eggshells around. Slugs will be around at night so you might not see them.

The beetroot (or is it chard) look fine. I would not worry about the odd hole in leaf. They will grow through that.

greenjay · « **Reply #2 on:** May 22, 2020, 20:41 »

I would say slug damage!

Carlh80 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 22, 2020, 21:28 »

Thanks guys. So just lay crushed egg shells around the plants?

Yeah beetroot the other ones are. So am
I correct in guessing that eaten leaves on root veg is t such a bad thing?

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