All entries for Tuesday 25 April 2017

Pest update 25th April

Between Friday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps in our carrot plots:

• 151 carrot flies
• 1 Orthops spp.

In 4 water traps - 3 near our overwintered swede plot and 1 near some oil seed rape:

• 68 male cabbage root flies and 7 females
• 44 bean seed flies
• 509 pollen beetles
• 31 flea beetles
• 12 cabbage stem weevils
• 1 cabbage seed weevil
• 2 cabbage stem flea beetle

We also recovered 57 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants.

We set up pheromone traps for silver Y moth, diamond-back moth and turnip moth on 18th April but none caught so far.

Rosemary Collier : 25 Apr 2017 16:28 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem