All entries for Tuesday 14 August 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 10th and 14th August our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 12 male and 2 female
• Bean seed flies - 36
• Pollen beetles - 5
• Flea beetles - 248
• Cabbage stem weevil -2
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 4

We caught 14 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our first sowing of carrots and 27 carrot flies on our traps in the second sowing.

There were 1 diamond-back moth, no silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 7 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 3 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 14 Aug 2018 17:27 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem