Pest update from Wellesbourne
Between Tuesday and today we caught:
On 3 sticky traps in each of our carrot plots:
- 7 carrot flies - overwintered carrots
- 33 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots
In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes and 1 trap near oil seed rape.
- 43 male cabbage root flies and 14 females
- 36 bean seed flies
- 1112 pollen beetles
- 61 flea beetles
- 47 cabbage stem weevils
- 4 cabbage seed weevil
- 6 cabbage stem flea beetles
We also recovered 0 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants.
We caught 1 silver Y moth and 2 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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