Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (16th) and Friday (19th) we found:

• 6 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 56 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There were 3 turnip moths, no diamond-back moths and no silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

The samples from the 3 yellow water traps contained:

• 3 male and 18 female cabbage root flies
• 55 bean seed flies
• 7 small white butterflies
• 15 flea beetles

Rosemary Collier : 20 Sep 2014 12:30 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem