Pest update from Wellebourne

Between 7th and 10th August our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 2 male and 5 female
• Bean seed flies - 16
• Pollen beetles - 24
• Flea beetles - 438
• Cabbage stem weevil - 2
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 2
• Small white butterfly - 1

We caught 28 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our first sowing of carrots and 8 carrot flies on our traps in the second sowing.

There were no diamond-back moths, no silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 10 turnip moth in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 7 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 10 Aug 2018 16:19 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem