All entries for Tuesday 31 May 2016
May 31, 2016
Diamond–back moth migration
Several tweets - mainly retweeted by @MigrantMothUK indicate that there was quite a large migration of diamond-back moths into the UK last night.
Pest counts at Wellesbourne
Today there were 90 carrot flies on traps in newly-emerged carrots (3 traps).
In the water traps (3) there were:
- 2 male and 0 female cabbage root flies
- 16 bean seed flies
- 10 pollen beetles
- 2 flea beetles
- 2 turnip moths (2 traps)
- no silver Y moths, no diamond-back moths and no cabbage moths (2 traps each species)
There were 23 cabbage root fly eggs (15 cauliflower plants).