Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps were checked at Wellesbourne today there were:

Traps in last year's swede plot

• 33 male and 12 femaie cabbage root flies
• 34 bean seed flies
• 15 flea beetles
• 247 pollen beetles
• 16 cabbage stem weevils
• 3 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 3 cabbage seed weevils

Traps in the new swede plot

• 17 male and 2 femaie cabbage root flies
• 32 bean seed flies
• 29 flea beetles
• 89 pollen beetles
• 9 cabbage stem weevils
• 4 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 2 cabbage seed weevils
  

There were 89 carrot flies on the sticky traps.

105 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 30 April and 3 May (around 15 plants).

No moths were captured in our pheromone traps (diamond-back moth, silver Y moth, turnip moth, cabbage moth).

Rosemary Collier : 03 May 2019 16:28 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem