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Green Worm Found on Broccoli is a Cabbage Worm

A green worm was found on this reader’s broccoli, and was unfortunately hurt when dropped onto the cutting board. Our saddened reader put the “poor little guy” outside in the shade, hoping that it would recover, and asks that we help her identify the critter.

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Small Green Worms in the Garden

A reader (or, technically, the daughter-in-law of a reader who wrote in on her behalf) found some small, green worms in her garden. She recently moved into a new house and was doing some preliminary gardening work when she found the “tiny green worms,” to use the reader’s precise wording, and she was wondering what they might be. We’ll do our best to assist, starting with this: the small, green worms our reader found might have been small and green, but they almost certainly aren’t worms. Rather, they are probably insect larvae, or possibly caterpillars, both of which are commonly mistaken for worms, which is actually a scientifically imprecise term.

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Black and Green Worms (or Caterpillars)

The reach of All About Worms is international – just ask our reader from Saudi Arabia, who recently wrote in with an extraordinary tale of worms (or possibly – nay, probably – caterpillars) that he found about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Riyadh, the capital of and largest city in Saudi Arabia. The (likely) caterpillars he found were primarily green (multiple shades of green, in fact), but they were also black with a brown (and somewhat red) stripe that runs down the length of their bodies. The reader also reports that the “worms” have some type of horn on their body, although it is somewhat hard to see in the picture he sent (see below). He was wondering what he had found, and if they are poisonous.

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Cabbage Worm

The cabbage worm is the larvae of the white butterfly. It is bright green in color and it feeds on broccoli, cauliflower and, of course, cabbage.