Pest update from Wellesbourne
Between Tuesday and Friday (2 May) we captured:
- 117 carrot flies on traps in the overwintered carrots (3 traps)
- 539 carrot flies on traps in newly-emerged carrots (3 traps)
In the 3 water traps:
- 62 male and 11 female cabbage root flies
- 300 bean seed flies
- 3 pollen beetles
- 1 flea beetle
We collected a total of 42 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants (planted 15 April).
We have pheromone traps out for European tarnished plant bug and common green capsid - and caught 2 European tarnished plant bugs.
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