Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps in each of our carrot plots:

• 11 carrot flies - overwintered carrots
• 80 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots

In 3 water traps in a new plot of swedes.

• 6 male cabbage root flies and 3 females
• 29 bean seed flies
• 439 pollen beetles
• 5 flea beetles
• 3 cabbage stem weevils
• 8 cabbage stem flea beetles

We also recovered 1 cabbage root fly egg from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants.

We caught 1 silver Y moth and 4 turnip moths (2 traps per species).

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

Rosemary Collier : 13 Jun 2017 17:32 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem