All entries for Tuesday 07 August 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 3rd and 7th August our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 0 male and 6 female
• Bean seed flies - 16
• Pollen beetles - 25
• Flea beetles - 670
• Cabbage stem weevil - 6
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 1

We caught 91 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our first sowing of carrots and 16 carrot flies on our traps in the second sowing.

There were 2 diamond-back moths, no silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 1 turnip moth in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 21 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 07 Aug 2018 16:54 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem