All entries for Tuesday 06 August 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps in the swede plot were checked today there were:

• 31 male and 16 female cabbage root flies
• 23 bean seed flies
• 20 flea beetles
• 165 pollen beetles
• 6 cabbage stem weevils
• 97 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils

There were 254 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the new plot for 2019.

34 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 2nd and 6th August (around 15 plants).

Three diamond-back moths, 2 turnip moths, 2 silver Y moths and no cabbage moths were captured in pheromone traps. There are 2 traps for each species.

We also caught 2 diamond-back moths on 5 carrot fly traps.

Rosemary Collier : 06 Aug 2019 16:39 |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem