All entries for Wednesday 30 August 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and Tuesday (30th) we found the following:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 5 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 125 male cabbage root flies and 66 females
• 24 bean seed flies
• 8 pollen beetles
• 66 flea beetles
• 3 cabbage stem weevils
• 5 cabbage stem flea beetle

We also recovered 104 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught no moths in our pheromone traps.

Rosemary Collier : 30 Aug 2017 20:14 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem