All entries for Monday 14 July 2014

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (11th) and Monday (14th) we captured:

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

We collected a total of 125 cabbage root fly eggs from around our 15 newly-planted cauliflower plants.

The 3 yellow water traps caught:

8 male and 79 female cabbage root flies

• 5 bean seed flies
• 8 pollen beetles
• 55 flea beetles
• 3 cabbage stem weevils

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

Rosemary Collier : 14 Jul 2014 17:04 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Onion thrips and leek moth

Things are just starting to happen on our leek trial (for the SCEPTRE project) and we have spotted damage by thrips and leek moth.

Leek moth damage is shown below:

Rosemary Collier : 14 Jul 2014 13:45 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem