Pest update Friday 21st April
Between Tuesday and today we caught:
On 3 sticky traps in our carrot plots:
- 99 carrot flies
- 1 Orthops spp.
In 4 water traps - 3 near our overwintered swede plot and 1 near some oil seed rape:
- 44 male cabbage root flies and 12 females
- 42 bean seed flies
- 374 pollen beetles
- 21 flea beetles
- 16 cabbage stem weevils
- 1 cabbage stem flea beetle
- 1 Orthops spp.
We also recovered 90 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 Tuesday but none caught so far.
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