All entries for Wednesday 27 June 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 22nd and 26th June our 3yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 3 male and 9 female
• Bean seed flies - 15
• Pollen beetles - approx 12,000
• Flea beetles - 0
• Cabbage stem weevil - 3
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 0

We caught 3 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in spring-sown carrots.

There were 3 diamond-back moths, 1 silver Y moth, no cabbage moths and 1 turnip moth in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 1 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 27 Jun 2018 08:44 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem