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Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (3rd) and Tuesday (7th) we found:

• 11 carrot flies on traps in carrots (3 traps)
• No cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There was one turnip moth, no diamond-back moths and no silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

In 3 yellow water traps within our swede plot there were:

• 1 male and 3 female cabbage root flies
• 73 bean seed flies
• 4 flea beetles
• 1 pollen beetle!

Rosemary Collier : 07 Oct 2014 22:00 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem