This is what our Broccoli plants look like today, alas.
Thankfully these plants produced several nice, tasty heads of broccoli before the damaging insects arrived. We've had them for many years now too. Typically, I'll hand pick the worms when they begin to appear, feeding them to our chickens. However, this year it seems like overnight they appeared and this damage set in. When the plants are this badly eaten and covered in caterpillar droppings even our rabbits tend to refuse to eat them.
There are two pests here: the Cabbage worm and the Cross-Stripped Cabbage worm. The later was formally restricted to the South, however, this insect is now a serious problem in southeastern New England of which I can attest to.
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