All entries for Tuesday 27 August 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps in the swede plot were checked today there were:

• 83 male and 17 female cabbage root flies
• 15 bean seed flies
• 50 flea beetles
• 9 pollen beetles
• 0 cabbage stem weevils
• 12 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils
• 2 small white butterflies

There were 8 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the new plot for 2019.

29 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 23rd and 27th August (around 15 plants).

No diamond-back moths, 0 turnip moths, 0 silver Y moths and no cabbage moths were captured in pheromone traps. There are 2 traps for each species.

There was one diamond-back moth on one of our 5 sticky traps.

Rosemary Collier : 27 Aug 2019 15:36 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem