Pest update from Wellesbourne
Between 8th and 11th May our 3 yellow water traps captured:
- Cabbage root flies - 30 males and 10 females
- Bean seed flies - 59
- Pollen beetles - 29
- Flea beetles - 2
- Cabbage seed weevil - 1
- Cabbage stem flea beetles - 3
We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 116 flies on 3 traps in overwintered carrots and 51 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 12 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.
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