All entries for Tuesday 17 July 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 13th and 17th July our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 9 male and 8 female
• Bean seed flies - 13
• Pollen beetles - 418
• Flea beetles - 235
• Cabbage stem weevil -14
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 37

We caught 5 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our carrots.

There were 7 diamond-back moths, 15 silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and no turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 20 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

In addition - there has beena very large increase in adult turnip sawfly in brassica crops in south Essex.

Rosemary Collier : 17 Jul 2018 17:21 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem