All entries for Tuesday 18 April 2017
April 18, 2017
Pest update Tuesday, 18th April
Between Thursday and today we caught:
On 3 sticky traps in our carrot plots:
- 85 carrot flies
- 1 Orthops spp.
In 4 water traps - 3 near our overwintered swede plot and 1 near some oil seed rape:
- 45 male cabbage root flies and 9 females
- 216 bean seed flies
- 35 pollen beetles
We also recovered 47 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants.