[sunshineband]

Cut the first of the calabrese and served it up, only to discover some inch long green (cooked  ) caterpillars on everyone's plates --YUCK!!!

[Christo]

Hmmm. Broiled Caterpillers. Nice. Like you say. It's all nutrition isn't it? What more could you ask from your veg?

[sunshineband]

Grow your own (free) animal protein 

[Dave Mack]

Whats worse than finding a caterpillar in your veg while eating it ??

Half a caterpillar 

[CHICKENGIRL]

as my 3 year old grandson would say.....   thats too yakky for me!  haha

[Trillium]

What's worse is when you blanch, freeze, then cook some cauliflower for guests and they find bugs crawling out of the cauli after all that  A friend had that happen.

[Maxine Groobey]

When I was a kid my mum used to boil a full cauli head and portion it up on plates. One t time a White billed caterpillar droped out of mine! Put me off as a kid, but now I won't eat cauli covered in sauce at all and will only eat/ cook it when it has been separated into florets! I do the same with broccoli lol

[PennyS]

I came home on Sunday pleased as punch having picked my first ever, ever cauli.

Plunged it into cold water to get rid of the few aphids I could see on it.  To my horror 3 caterpillars emerged. 

It was only when I went to cut it up I found several more.  Had to go over it very carefully!

Didn't spoil the flavour though.

I found a gap at the base of my netting..... since covered up!

[corndolly]

I always soak cauliflower in cold water with a little salt added , the caterpillars emerge dead and are removed . I wash the cauli again in fresh water  and inspect the florets thoroughlybefore cooking.

[PennyS]

I always soak cauliflower in cold water with a little salt added , the caterpillars emerge dead and are removed . I wash the cauli again in fresh water  and inspect the florets thoroughlybefore cooking.

Ah - just been to add some salt to the water mine are soaking in. 
The aphids are still clinging on for dear life, I notice.  Little blighters.