All entries for Saturday 12 July 2014

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (8th) and Friday (11th) we found:

• 18 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)

In the 3 water traps in the 'new' cauliflower plot:

• 4 male and 62 female cabbage root flies
• 14 bean seed flies
• 11 pollen beetles
• 53 flea beetles
• 4 cabbage stem weevil

We collected a total of 25 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.

There were no diamond-back moths, no silver Y moths and 2 turnip moths (2 traps per species).

Rosemary Collier : 12 Jul 2014 19:11 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem