Pest update from Wellesbourne
Between Tuesday and today we caught:
On 3 sticky traps in each of our carrot plots:
- 8 carrot flies - overwintered carrots
- 108 carrot flies - spring-sown carrots
In 3 water traps in a new plot of swedes.
- 6 male cabbage root flies and 0 female
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9 bean seed flies
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793 pollen beetles
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40 flea beetles
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16 cabbage stem weevils
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5 cabbage seed weevils
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2 cabbage stem flea beetles
We also recovered 8 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants.
We set up pheromone traps for silver Y moth, diamond-back moth and turnip moth on 18th April and caught 1 silver Y moth and 2 turnip moths (2 traps per species).
We have also caged some areas planted with narcissus in order to record emergence of large narcissus fly - one more caught today!
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