Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps in each of our carrot plots:

• 109 carrot flies - overwintered carrots
• 2 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots

In 4 water traps - 3 near our overwintered swede plot and 1 near some oil seed rape:

• 23 male cabbage root flies and 2 females
• 51 bean seed flies
• 16 pollen beetles
• 4 flea beetles

We also recovered 70 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 but none caught so far.

Rosemary Collier : 28 Apr 2017 15:53 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem