All entries for Tuesday 05 September 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and today we found the following:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 8 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 88 male cabbage root flies and 51 females
• 48 bean seed flies
• 6 pollen beetles
• 21 flea beetles
• 1 cabbage stem weevil
• 1 cabbage stem flea beetle

We also recovered 82 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 1 turnip moth and one silver Y moth in our pheromone traps.

Rosemary Collier : 05 Sep 2017 16:52 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem