All entries for Friday 01 September 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday and today we found the following:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 6 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 95 male cabbage root flies and 78 females
• 38 bean seed flies
• 4 pollen beetles
• 17 flea beetles
• 1 small white butterfly

We also recovered 33 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 2 turnip moths in our pheromone traps.

Rosemary Collier : 01 Sep 2017 16:03 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem