All entries for Wednesday 02 August 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday 28th July and Tuesday 1st August we caught:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 84 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 17 male cabbage root flies and 9 females
• 36 bean seed flies
• 81 pollen beetles
• 45 flea beetles
• 24 cabbage stem weevils
• 4 cabbage stem flea beetles

We also recovered 1 cabbage root fly egg from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 1 silver Y moth in our pheromone traps.

Rosemary Collier : 02 Aug 2017 15:45 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem