All entries for Tuesday 07 May 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps were checked at Wellesbourne today there were:

Traps in last year's swede plot

• 19 male and 12 femaie cabbage root flies
• 34 bean seed flies
• 2 flea beetles
• 189 pollen beetles
• 5 cabbage stem weevils
• 0 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils

Traps in the new swede plot

• 21 male and 3 femaie cabbage root flies
• 47 bean seed flies
• 24 flea beetles
• 24 pollen beetles
• 1 cabbage stem weevils
• 5 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils
  

There were 206 carrot flies on the sticky traps.

68 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 3 and 7 May (around 15 plants).

No moths were captured in our pheromone traps (diamond-back moth, silver Y moth, turnip moth, cabbage moth).

Rosemary Collier : 07 May 2019 16:35 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem