Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 7th and 11th September our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies -113 male and 34 female
• Bean seed flies - 59
• Pollen beetles - 10
• Flea beetles - 73
• Cabbage stem weevil - 0
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 1

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

There were no diamond-back moths, 4 silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 3 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 68 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 11 Sep 2018 17:09 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem