All entries for Wednesday 28 May 2014

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (23rd) and Tuesday (27th) we captured:

• 90 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 15 cauliflower plants (planted 15 April). The 3 water traps caught:

• 2 male and 13 female cabbage root flies
• 58 bean seed flies
• 1 pollen beetle
• 9 flea beetles

There were no diamond-back moths or silver Y moths and 10 turnip moths (cutworms) (2 pheromone traps per species).

Rosemary Collier : 28 May 2014 22:12 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem