All entries for Tuesday 06 June 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps in each of our carrot plots:

• 11 carrot flies - overwintered carrots
• 49 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots

In 3 water traps in a new plot of swedes.

• 2 male cabbage root flies and 2 females
• 34 bean seed flies
• 362 pollen beetles
• 21 flea beetles
• 24 cabbage stem weevils
• 8 cabbage seed weevils
• 5 cabbage stem flea beetles

We also recovered 8 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants.

We set up pheromone traps for silver Y moth, diamond-back moth and turnip moth on 18th April and caught 1 silver Y moth and 3 turnip moths (2 traps per species).

We have also caged some areas planted with narcissus in order to record emergence of large narcissus fly - none caught today!

Rosemary Collier : 06 Jun 2017 18:35 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem