All entries for Tuesday 08 August 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 40 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 80 male cabbage root flies and 21 females
• 24 bean seed flies
• 49 pollen beetles
• 45 flea beetles
• 7 cabbage stem weevils
• 3 cabbage stem flea beetles

We also recovered 1 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 1 silver Y moth in our pheromone traps.

Rosemary Collier : 08 Aug 2017 18:47 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem