All entries for Tuesday 12 August 2014

Rothamsted suction trap captures

The most recent bulletin (week ending 3 August) can be found here:

http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/insect-survey-bulletins/bulletin-no-18-28-july-03-august

Rosemary Collier : 12 Aug 2014 17:45 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (8th) and Tuesday (12th) we captured:

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

We collected a total of 12 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.

The 3 yellow water traps caught:

10 male and 24 female cabbage root flies

• 28 bean seed flies
• 2 pollen beetles
• 16 flea beetles
• 6 small white butterflies.

There was 1 silver Y moth, no diamond-back moths and 1 turnip moth (2 pheromone traps per species).

Rosemary Collier : 12 Aug 2014 17:44 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem