All entries for Wednesday 17 September 2014

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (12th) and Tuesday (16th) we found:

• 2 carrot flies on traps in carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 71 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There was 1 turnip moth, no diamond-back moths and no silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

In 3 yellow water traps within our swede plot there were:

• 41 male and 47 female cabbage root flies
• 103 bean seed flies
• 13 flea beetles
• 5 small white butterflies

Rosemary Collier : 17 Sep 2014 17:26 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem