All entries for Tuesday 28 May 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps were checked at Wellesbourne today there were:

Traps in the new swede plot (the traps in the old plot have been removed):

• 1 male and 0 femaie cabbage root flies
• 24 bean seed flies
• 148 flea beetles
• 88 pollen beetles
• 24 cabbage stem weevils
• 9 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 2 cabbage seed weevils
  

There were 21 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the overwintered carrot plot and 137 flies in a newly-sown plot.

5 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 24 and 28 May (around 15 plants).

9 turnip moths were captured. No moths were captured in our other pheromone traps (silver Y moth, cabbage moth, diamond-back moth). There are 2 traps for each species.

Rosemary Collier : 28 May 2019 17:00 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem