Pest update at Wellesbourne

Between 5th and 8th June our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 0 male and 1 female
• Bean seed flies - 8
• Pollen beetles - 53
• Flea beetles - 9
• Cabbage stem weevil - o
• Cabbage seed weevil - 1
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 2

We caught 20 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in spring-sown carrots.

There were 3 diamond-back moths, 1 silver Y moth, no cabbage moths and 4 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 17 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 08 Jun 2018 20:46 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem