All entries for Friday 07 July 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 13 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes and 1 trap near oil seed rape.

• 24 male cabbage root flies and 81 females
• 48 bean seed flies
• 757 pollen beetles
• 33 flea beetles
• 32 cabbage stem weevils
• 10 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 1 silver Y moth!

We also recovered 182 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 14 diamond-back moths (2 traps) in our pheromone traps.

Finally - one large narcissus fly in one of the field cages.

Rosemary Collier : 07 Jul 2017 16:30 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem