All entries for Tuesday 05 June 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 1st and 5th June our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 1 male and 4 female
• Bean seed flies - 8
• Pollen beetles - 146
• Flea beetles - 35
• Cabbage stem weevil - 16
• Cabbage seed weevil - 18
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 7

We caught 47 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in spring-sown carrots.

There were 10 diamond-back moths, no silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 4 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 27 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 05 Jun 2018 17:46 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem