All entries for Wednesday 25 June 2014

Pest update Wellesbourne

Between Friday (20th) and Tuesday (24th) we captured:

• 24 carrot flies on traps in this year's crop of carrots (3 traps)

We collected a total of 54 cabbage root fly eggs from around our 15 'old' cauliflower plants (planted 15 April) and 6 eggs from around 15 newly-planted cauliflower plants.

The 3 yellow water traps caught:

• 8 male and 41 female cabbage root flies
• 39 bean seed flies
• 76 pollen beetles
• 757 flea beetles!!!
• 5 cabbage stem weevils
• 2 cabbage seed weevils

There were 5 turnip moths (cutworm) (2 pheromone traps) - no silver Y moths or diamond-back moths.

Rosemary Collier : 25 Jun 2014 09:14 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem