All entries for Thursday 12 June 2014

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (6th) and Tuesday (10th) we captured:

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

We collected a total of 8 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants (planted 15 April). The 3 water traps caught:

• 0 male and 9 female cabbage root flies
• 63 bean seed flies
• 19 pollen beetle
• 68 flea beetles
• 6 cabbage stem weevil
• 4 cabbage seed weevil

There was 1 silver Y moth and 1 turnip moth (cutworm) (2 pheromone traps per species).

Today there were 2 winged, 3 wingless and 3 parasitised willow-carrot aphids on 3 x 0.5 metre lengths of row of carrots.

Rosemary Collier : 12 Jun 2014 19:21 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem