All entries for Tuesday 15 August 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 11 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 197 male cabbage root flies and 37 females
• 14 bean seed flies
• 13 pollen beetles
• 54 flea beetles
• 4 cabbage stem weevils
• 1 cabbage stem flea beetles

We also recovered 10 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 1 diamond-back moth in our pheromone traps

Rosemary Collier : 15 Aug 2017 16:57 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem