All entries for Saturday 01 July 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday and Friday we caught:

On 3 sticky traps - 3 carrot flies in spring-sown carrots - traps removed from overwintered carrots

We recovered 38 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants.

We caught 3 turnip moths and 8 silver Y moths (2 traps per species) in our pheromone traps.

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes and 1 trap near oil seed rape:

• 22 male cabbage root flies and 43 females
• 44 bean seed flies
• 788 pollen beetles
• 1 flea beetles
• 3 cabbage stem weevils
• 17 cabbage stem flea beetle
• 1 small white butterfly

Rosemary Collier : 01 Jul 2017 11:56 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem