Pest update 3rd August

Between 31st July and 3rd August our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 2 male and 8 female
• Bean seed flies - 23
• Pollen beetles - 16
• Flea beetles - 640
• Cabbage stem weevil - 4
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 2

We caught 45 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our first sowing of carrots and 12 carrot flies on our traps in the second sowing.

There were 1 diamond-back moth, no silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and no turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 36 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 03 Aug 2018 17:52 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem