Pest update from Wellesbourne
Between 15th and 18th May our 3 yellow water traps captured:
- Cabbage root flies - 1 male and 0 females
- Bean seed flies - 7
- Pollen beetles - 32
- Flea beetles - 8
- Cabbage stem weevil - 8
- Cabbage seed weevil - 1
We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 117 flies on 3 traps in overwintered carrots and 200 flies on 3 traps in newly-sown carrots.
There were no diamond-back moths, silver Y moths, cabbage moths or turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).
There were 5 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.
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