All entries for Thursday 17 October 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps in the swede plot were checked on Tuesday 15th October there were:

• 5 male and 21 female cabbage root flies
• 54 bean seed flies
• 2 flea beetles
• 1 pollen beetles
• 2 flea beetles
  
• 13 cabbage stem weevils
• 4 cabbage stem flea beetles

There were 63 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps.

No cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 11th and 15th October (around 15 plants).

No diamond-back moths, 4 turnip moths, 1 silver Y moth and no cabbage moths were captured in pheromone traps. There are 2 traps for each species.

Rosemary Collier : 17 Oct 2019 05:51 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem