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Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (30th) and Friday (3rd) we found:

• 6 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• No cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• No turnip moths, no diamond-back moths and no silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

The samples from the 3 yellow water traps contained:

• 0 male and 2 female cabbage root flies
• 33 bean seed flies
• 1 cabbage stem flea beetle
• 8 flea beetles

Rosemary Collier : 03 Oct 2014 17:28 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem