All entries for Tuesday 28 August 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 24th and 28th August our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 134 male and 31 female
• Bean seed flies - 70
• Pollen beetles - 0
• Flea beetles - 87
• Cabbage stem weevil - 0
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 2
• Small white butterfly - 1

We caught 15 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our second sowing of carrots.

There were 0 diamond-back moths, 1 silver Y moth, no cabbage moths and 19 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 0 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 28 Aug 2018 21:03 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem