Pest update from Wellesbourne

Pest updates have moved:

Carrot fly Monitoring carrot fly at Wellesbourne (warwick.ac.uk)

Brassica pests Monitoring records for brassica pests at Wellesbourne 2022 (warwick.ac.uk)

Bean seed fly Bean seed fly monitoring 2022 (warwick.ac.uk)

Rosemary Collier : 23 Apr 2022 06:54 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the 3 yellow water traps were emptied today there were:

• 4 male cabbage root flies (first of the year)
• 46 bean seed flies
• 36 pollen beetles
• 8 flea beetles
• 2 cabage stem weevil
• 1 cabbage seed weevil

No carrot flies on the sticky traps.

Rosemary Collier : 12 Apr 2022 19:52 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the traps were emptied yesterday there were:

• 2 male cabbage root flies (first of the year)
• 24 bean seed flies
• 3 pollen beetles
• 4 flea beetles

Rosemary Collier : 06 Apr 2022 07:35 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Counts from yellow water traps and carrot fly traps today:

Rosemary Collier : 29 Mar 2022 15:16 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Willow–carrot aphid counts

We've been following the development of overwintering aphid populations on ‘open’ overwintered carrots over the last few years and the table below shows their counts since January. These are numbers per plant.

Rosemary Collier : 23 Mar 2022 16:47 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Updates from March

Total captures in 3 yellow water traps or 3 sticky traps (carrot fly):

Rosemary Collier : 23 Mar 2022 16:22 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Updates until March

Bean seed fly counts to 15 March 2022

Rosemary Collier : 23 Mar 2022 16:13 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Today's counts were:

12 carrot fly (3 sticky traps)

110 bean seed flies and one female cabbage root fly in 3 water traps.

Rosemary Collier : 04 Jan 2022 17:03 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Last counts of the year

16 Nov - 17 carrot fly, 3 male and 2 female cabbage root fly, 8 bean seed fly

23 Nov - 36 carrot fly, 1 male and 3 female cabbage root fly, 7 bean seed fly

30 Nov - 14 carrot fly, 1 male cabbage root fly, 4 bean seed fly

7 Dec - 12 carrot fly, 15 bean seed fly

14 Dec - 17 carrot fly, 1 female cabbage root fly, 17 bean seed fly

21 Dec - 4 carrot fly, 21 bean seed fly

27 Dec - 7 carrot fly, 9 bean seed fly

Rosemary Collier : 28 Dec 2021 08:05 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Last Friday's trap captures (5th) were (over 3 days):

• 4 carrot fly - 3 traps

In the three yellow water traps:

• 1 bean seed fly

Tuesday's (9th) trap captures were:

• 32 carrot fly - 3 traps

In the three yellow water traps:

• 1 male and 1 female cabbage root fly
• 17 bean seed fly
• 1 pollen beetle

Todays trap captures were:

• 18 carrot fly - 3 traps

In the three yellow water traps:

• 2 male cabbage root fly
• 5 bean seed fly
• 1 cabbage stem weevil

Rosemary Collier : 12 Nov 2021 16:19 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem