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
- 55 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots
In 3 water traps in a new plot of swedes.
- 1 male cabbage root fly and 2 female
- 35 bean seed flie
- 244 pollen beetles
- 9 flea beetles
- 2 cabbage stem weevils
- 5 cabbage stem flea beetles
We also recovered 2 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 18th April and caught 7 silver Y moths and 5 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!
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