Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (5th) and Tuesday (9th) we found:

• 10 carrot flies on traps in carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 44 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There was 1 turnip moth, no diamond-back moths and 1 silver Y moth (2 traps per species).

In 3 yellow water traps within our swede plot there were:

• 45 male and 33 female cabbage root flies
• 52 bean seed flies
• 42 flea beetles
• 12 small white butterflies

Rosemary Collier : 09 Sep 2014 18:35 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem