Pest update from Wellesbourne
When the water traps were checked at Wellesbourne today there were:
Traps in last year's swede plot
- 15 male and 9 femaie cabbage root flies
- 38 bean seed flies
- 11 flea beetles
- 133 pollen beetles
- 7 cabbage stem weevils
- 4 cabbage stem flea beetles
- 0 cabbage seed weevils
Traps in the new swede plot
- 18 male and 1 femaie cabbage root flies
- 38 bean seed flies
- 31 flea beetles
- 27 pollen beetles
- 0 cabbage stem weevils
- 9 cabbage stem flea beetles
- 1 cabbage seed weevils
There were 91 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the overwintered carrot plot and 374 flies in a newly-sown plot.
109 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 7 and 10 May (around 15 plants).
No moths were captured in our pheromone traps (diamond-back moth, silver Y moth, turnip moth, cabbage moth).
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