Cluster of tiny yellow eggs on nasturtium leaves

[crypticish]

There are clusters of tiny yellow eggs (?) that I keep finding on my nasturtium leaves in the garden. Will these grow to be butterflies or will they be pests?

[Clanad]

If you were our neighbor here in the U.S., you would have been visited by the innocuous looking, ut destructive Cabbage White butterfly. The buterfly is white and vry durable.

The eggs, when hatched ito caterpillars, will soon destroy he host plant... you can read more here...

http://www.fcps.edu/i...ogy/cabbage_white.htm

[daffy654]

There is no such thing as a Cabbage White butterfly, they are Small White, Large White, Green Veined White etc. Cabbage White is just a 'pet name'. We get all of the ones I have listed here in the UK so it could be the eggs of these (or other butterflies and moths).

[ladybirder]

The birds love caterpillars.

[boxtops]

Yep, as the others say - it's the white butterfly, the caterpillars will eat all the leaves but the birds love them, and as there is a shortage of butterflies this year, I'm leaving all the caterpillars to get on with it. Same as the little squiggly ones who are eating my willow leaves :-)

[glasman]

I see that pedantry is alive and well on AB.