Pest update Tuesday, 18th April

Between Thursday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps in our carrot plots:

• 85 carrot flies
• 1 Orthops spp.

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

• 45 male cabbage root flies and 9 females
• 216 bean seed flies
• 35 pollen beetles

We also recovered 47 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants.

Rosemary Collier : 18 Apr 2017 16:34 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem