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June 20, 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps in each of our carrot plots:

  • 1 carrot flies - overwintered carrots
  • 27 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes and 1 trap near oil seed rape.

  • 25 male cabbage root flies and 17 females
  • 14 bean seed flies
  • 1981 pollen beetles
  • 149 flea beetles
  • 43 cabbage stem weevils
  • 3 cabbage seed weevil
  • 20 cabbage stem flea beetles

We also recovered 27 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 4 silver Y moths and 3 turnip moths (2 traps per species) in our pheromone traps.

We have also caged some areas planted with narcissus in order to record emergence of large narcissus fly - none caught today!


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