All entries for Tuesday 29 April 2014

Wellesbourne pest update

Since Friday we have captured:

• 191 carrot flies on traps in the overwintered carrots (3 traps)
• 313 carrot flies on traps in newly-emerged carrots (3 traps)

In the 3 water traps:

• 66 male and 17 female cabbage root flies
• 309 bean seed flies
• 2 pollen beetles
• 1 flea beetle

We collected a total of 11 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants (planted 15 April).

We caught one diamond-back moth (2 pheromone traps)

We have pheromone traps out for European tarnished plant bug and common green capsid - and caught 4 European tarnished plant bugs.

Rosemary Collier : 29 Apr 2014 13:47 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem