All entries for Tuesday 21 May 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps were checked at Wellesbourne today there were:

Traps in last year's swede plot

• 0 male and 0 femaie cabbage root flies
• 2 bean seed flies
• 19 flea beetles
• 41 pollen beetles
• 8 cabbage stem weevils
• 15 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 4 cabbage seed weevils

Traps in the new swede plot

• 2 male and 0 femaie cabbage root flies
• 18 bean seed flies
• 512 flea beetles
• 101 pollen beetles
• 34 cabbage stem weevils
• 17 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 2 cabbage seed weevils
  

There were 68 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the overwintered carrot plot and 288 flies in a newly-sown plot.

31 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 17 and 21 May (around 15 plants).

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

Rosemary Collier : 21 May 2019 17:12 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem