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Pest update for Wellesbourne on Tuesday 20th September

Since Friday we have captured:

In pheromone traps (2 per species):

• Turnip moth = 1
• Silver Y moth = 0
• Cabbage moth = 0
• Diamond-back moth = 0

On 3 sticky traps:

• Carrot fly = 22 (in second sowing)

In 3 water traps:

• Cabbage root fly males = 5
• Cabbage root fly females = 18
• Bean seed flies = 10
• Flea beetles = 1
• Pollen beetles = 0
• Small white butterfly = 1
• Large white butterfly = 0
• Cabbage stem weevil = 0

Cabbage root fly eggs = 9 (15 plants)

On our untreated brassicas there are a few cabbage aphid colonies and a developing infestation of cabbage whitefly. we also have small numbers of caterpillars of cabbage moth, garden pebble moth and small white butterfly.

Rosemary Collier : 21 Sep 2016 09:40 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem