All entries for Saturday 21 September 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps in the swede plot were checked on Friday (20th) there were:

• 114 male and 36 female cabbage root flies
• 47 bean seed flies
• 28 flea beetles
• 0 pollen beetles
• 2 cabbage stem weevils
• 25 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils
• 2 small white butterflies

There were 63 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the new plot for 2019.

59 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 17th and 20th September (around 15 plants).

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

Rosemary Collier : 21 Sep 2019 17:11 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem