All entries for Tuesday 11 June 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps in the 2019 swede plot were checked today there were:

• 1 male and 0 femaie cabbage root flies
• 70 bean seed flies
• 40 flea beetles
• 254 pollen beetles
• 6 cabbage stem weevils
• 0 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 1 cabbage seed weevil
  

There were 27 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the new plot for 2019.

Seven cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 7 and 10 June (around 15 plants).

2 diamond-back moths and 2 turnip moths were captured. No moths were captured in our other pheromone traps (silver Y moth, cabbage moth, diamond-back moth). There are 2 traps for each species.

Rosemary Collier : 11 Jun 2019 16:43 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem