We discovered cabbage worms in our broccoli. Ick. Gross. Blech.
Nasty. Then my eight year old and I discovered that the Cabbage Worm
Butterfly (known as the “Cabbage White”) is what the Cabbage Worm
Caterpillar develops into. What a fantastic way to get your children
out in the garden to learn about nature! You can see our discovery in
the video above.
In
hopes of seeing the butterflies in our own front yard, we are now
rescuing wayward cabbage worms and placing them on all our broccoli.
The idea is to save the cabbage, kale, cauliflower, but to use the brocooli as a breeding ground for the little green caterpillars.
We are already finding chrysalis’s around the garden filled with the sleeping babies and cannot wait to see the butterflies emerge.
Get your children out in nature – it is a very green and healthy thing to do and they will love the time you spend together learning. Happily, the front yard veggie garden has turned into a wonderful experiment for our family.
-Shawna Lee Coronado is an author, locally syndicated newspaper columnist, health, and greening expert focused on teaching and living a green lifestyle. She blogs on conservation, greening and health tips at www.gardeningnude.com. Information on her books and other media can be found at www.thecasualgardener.com.
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