All entries for Tuesday 20 June 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps in each of our carrot plots:

• 1 carrot flies - overwintered carrots
• 27 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes and 1 trap near oil seed rape.

• 25 male cabbage root flies and 17 females
• 14 bean seed flies
• 1981 pollen beetles
• 149 flea beetles
• 43 cabbage stem weevils
• 3 cabbage seed weevil
• 20 cabbage stem flea beetles

We also recovered 27 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 4 silver Y moths and 3 turnip moths (2 traps per species) in our pheromone traps.

We have also caged some areas planted with narcissus in order to record emergence of large narcissus fly - none caught today!

Rosemary Collier : 20 Jun 2017 16:32 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem