All entries for Friday 03 August 2018
August 03, 2018
Pest update 3rd August
Between 31st July and 3rd August our 3 yellow water traps captured:
- Cabbage root flies - 2 male and 8 female
- Bean seed flies - 23
- Pollen beetles - 16
- Flea beetles - 640
- Cabbage stem weevil - 4
- Cabbage seed weevil - 0
- Cabbage stem flea beetle - 2
We caught 45 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our first sowing of carrots and 12 carrot flies on our traps in the second sowing.
There were 1 diamond-back moth, no silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and no turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).
There were 36 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.
Pest update 31 July
Between 27th and 31st July our 3 yellow water traps captured:
- Cabbage root flies - 3 male and 2 female
- Bean seed flies - 30
- Pollen beetles - 29
- Flea beetles - 555
- Cabbage stem weevil - 3
- Cabbage seed weevil - 0
- Cabbage stem flea beetle - 7
We caught 12 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our first sowing of carrots and 5 carrot flies on our traps in the second sowing.
There were 3 diamond-back moths, 2 silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 1 turnip moth in our traps (2 traps per pest).
There were 48 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.