All entries for Tuesday 28 April 2015
April 28, 2015
HDC project – egg counts in Cornwall FV416b
The updated Cornish cabbage root fly egg counts for this week are below – expressed as eggs per plant per week:
Helston |
Hayle |
Gwithian |
Truro |
St Columb |
|
20-Apr |
0.15 |
1.2 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.9 |
27-Apr |
0.85 |
12 |
2.1 |
1.15 |
18 |
HDC Project FV 416b - Brassicas: Treatments to control cabbage root fly - as part of this one-year HDC project, we are monitoring egg-laying by female cabbage root flies at 5 sites in Cornwall on a range of brassica crops. We’re sampling 20 plants per location. The sampling is being coordinated by Ellis Luckhurst.