Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 6th and 10th July our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 18 male and 20 female
• Bean seed flies - 19
• Pollen beetles - 1007
• Flea beetles - 217
• Cabbage stem weevil - 44
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 60
• 1 large white butterfly

We caught 2 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our carrots.

There were 11 diamond-back moths, 2 silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 1 turnip moth in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 34 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 10 Jul 2018 18:02 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem