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Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps in the swede plot were checked yesterday (8th October) there were:

• 31 male and 60 female cabbage root flies
• 99 bean seed flies
• 0 flea beetles
• 1 pollen beetle
• 16 cabbage stem weevils
• 3 cabbage stem flea beetle
• 1 cabbage seed weevil

There were 96 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps.

16 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 4th and 7th October (around 15 plants).

No diamond-back moths, 1 turnip moth, 0 silver Y moths and no cabbage moths were captured in pheromone traps. There are 2 traps for each species.

Rosemary Collier : 09 Oct 2019 17:14 |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem