All entries for Tuesday 12 June 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 8th and 12th June our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 2 male and 5 female
• Bean seed flies - 8
• Pollen beetles - 54
• Flea beetles - 30
• Cabbage stem weevil - 2
• Cabbage seed weevil - 8
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 1

We caught 25 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in spring-sown carrots.

There were 5 diamond-back moths, no silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 0 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 17 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 12 Jun 2018 18:53 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem