All entries for Tuesday 08 May 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 4th and 8th May our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 60 males and 13 females
• Bean seed flies - 17
• Pollen beetles - 181
• Flea beetles - 23
• Cabbage stem weevils - 25
• Cabbage seed weevils - 45
• Cabbage stem flea beetles - 13

We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 78 flies on 3 traps.

There was one diamond-back moth and no silver Y moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 11 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 08 May 2018 17:44 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem