All entries for Wednesday 09 July 2014

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (4th) and Tuesday (8th) we captured:

• 38 carrot flies on traps in this year's crop of carrots (3 traps)

We collected a total of 76 cabbage root fly eggs from around our 15 newly-planted cauliflower plants.

The 3 yellow water traps caught:

21 male and 49 female cabbage root flies

• 15 bean seed flies
• 46 pollen beetles
• 48 flea beetles
• 4 cabbage stem weevils

There was 1 silver Y moth - no diamond-back moths or turnip moths (2 pheromone traps per species).

Rosemary Collier : 09 Jul 2014 16:12 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem