All entries for Tuesday 21 August 2018
August 21, 2018
Pest update from Wellesbourne
Between 17th and 21st August our 3 yellow water traps captured:
- Cabbage root flies - 32 male and 13 female
- Bean seed flies - 13
- Pollen beetles - 15
- Flea beetles - 265
- Cabbage stem weevil -1
- Cabbage seed weevil - 0
- Cabbage stem flea beetle - 1
- Small white butterfly - 1
We caught 17 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our second sowing of carrots.
There were 0 diamond-back moths, 0 silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 4 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).
There were 11 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.