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Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 31st August and 4th September our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 98 male and 58 female
• Bean seed flies - 31
• Pollen beetles - 10
• Flea beetles - 102
• Cabbage stem weevil - 0
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 11

We caught 7 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our second sowing of carrots.

There were no diamond-back moths, 2 silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 8 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 8 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 04 Sep 2018 17:42 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem