Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 25th and 29th May our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 1 male and 1 female
• Bean seed flies - 4
• Pollen beetles - 64
• Flea beetles - 30
• Cabbage stem weevil - 11
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 1

We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 1 fly on 3 traps in overwintered carrots and 28 flies on 3 traps in spring-sown carrots.

There were 5 diamond-back moths, 1 silver Y moth, no cabbage moths and 3 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 12 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 29 May 2018 15:11 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem