All entries for Sunday 24 August 2014

Pest updates from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (15th) and Monday (18th) we found:

• 37 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 22 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There were no turnip moths, no diamond-back moths and 3 silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

The 3 yellow water traps caught:

• 10 male and 10 female cabbage root flies
• 32 bean seed flies
• 20 flea beetles
• 3 small white butterflies
• 2 cabbage stem weevils

Between Monday (18th) and Friday (22nd) we found:

• 50 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 2 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There was 4 turnip moths, no diamond-back moths and 3 silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

The contents of the 3 yellow water traps have still to be counted.

Rosemary Collier : 24 Aug 2014 14:48 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Rothamsted suction trap captures

The latest aphid bulletin is here 2014webbulletin20.pdf. Captures of vegetable pest aphids were very low.

Rosemary Collier : 24 Aug 2014 14:48 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem