All entries for Tuesday 18 September 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 14th and 18th September our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 79 male and 20 female
• Bean seed flies - 46
• Pollen beetles - 19
• Flea beetles - 50
• Cabbage stem weevil - 0
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 1

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

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

There were 41 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 18 Sep 2018 18:13 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem