Pest update from Wellesbourne
Between Tuesday and today we caught:
On 3 sticky traps in each of our carrot plots:
- 3 carrot flies - overwintered carrots
- 5 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots
In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes and 1 trap near oil seed rape.
- 28 male cabbage root flies and 21 females
- 16 bean seed flies
- 2741 pollen beetles
- 20 flea beetles
- 22 cabbage stem weevils
- 1 cabbage seed weevil
- 21 cabbage stem flea beetles
We also recovered 81 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).
We caught 2 turnip moths and one diamond-back moth (2 traps per species) in our pheromone traps.
No narcissus flies!
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