How to handle Australia’s ‘plague’ of cabbage-chomping moths
by Rafqa Touma from Environment | The Guardian on (#6GC3N)
Experts warn Melbourne and Sydney gardeners to look out for cute little butterfly' lookalikes, which have flourished this year due to the climate
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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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