All entries for Friday 08 August 2014

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Monday (4th) and Friday (8th) we found:

• 23 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 19 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There were no turnip moths, diamond-back moths or silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

The 3 yellow water traps caught:

• 12 male and 5 female cabbage root flies
• 12 bean seed flies
• 3 pollen beetles
• 233 flea beetles
• 3 cabbage stem weevils
• 1 small white butterfly

Rosemary Collier : 08 Aug 2014 17:02 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem