All entries for Tuesday 14 May 2019

Update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps were checked at Wellesbourne today there were:

Traps in last year's swede plot

• 8 male and 4 femaie cabbage root flies
• 29 bean seed flies
• 23 flea beetles
• 183 pollen beetles
• 23 cabbage stem weevils
• 5 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 7 cabbage seed weevils
• 1 small white butterfly

Traps in the new swede plot

• 13 male and 1 femaie cabbage root flies
• 74 bean seed flies
• 311 flea beetles
• 348 pollen beetles
• 59 cabbage stem weevils
• 15 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 9 cabbage seed weevils
  

There were 204 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the overwintered carrot plot and 698 flies in a newly-sown plot.

40 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 10 and 14 May (around 15 plants).

We caught 4 turnip moths in 2 pheromone traps. No moths were captured in our other pheromone traps (diamond-back moth, silver Y moth, cabbage moth).

Rosemary Collier : 14 May 2019 18:15 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem