All entries for Tuesday 26 May 2015
May 26, 2015
FV 416b cabbage root fly egg counts in Cornwall
The egg counts up to Monday 25th May are as follows - they show the mean numbers of eggs found around a sample of 20 plants per location:
Helston | Hayle | Gwithian | Truro | St Columb | |
20-Apr | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.9 |
27-Apr | 0.9 | 12.0 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 18.0 |
05-May | 0.8 | 12.2 | 8.2 | 4.0 | 4.1 |
11-May | 2.6 | 20.1 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 5.7 |
18-May | 4.7 | 17.1 | 1.7 | 5.6 | 19.8 |
25-May | 2.3 | 7.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 18.4 |
Pest update from Wellesbourne
Today we found:
- 1 male and 15 female cabbage root flies (3 water traps)
- 56 bean seed flies (3 traps)
- 178 carrot flies (3 traps) in our new carrots
- 1 flea beetle
- 1 pollen beetle
- 1 cabbage stem weevil
- 107 cabbage root fly eggs (15 cauliflower plants)