All entries for Tuesday 18 June 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps in the swede plot were checked today there were:

• 2 male and 1 female cabbage root flies
• 97 bean seed flies
• 18 flea beetles
• 418 pollen beetles
• 39 cabbage stem weevils
• 2 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 2 cabbage seed weevils
  

There were 27 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the new plot for 2019.

11 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 14 and 18 June (around 15 plants).

8 diamond-back moths and 1 turnip moth were captured. No moths were captured in our other pheromone traps (silver Y moth, cabbage moth, diamond-back moth). There are 2 traps for each species.

We also caught 2 diamond-back moths on the carrot fly traps.

Rosemary Collier : 18 Jun 2019 17:19 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem