Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (3rd) and Friday (6th) we found:

• 86 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• 1 winged and 7 wingless willow-carrot aphids on 3 x 0.5 m lengths of carrot row (29 May)

In the 3 water traps in the 'new' cauliflower plot:

• 0 male and 7 female cabbage root flies
• 37 bean seed flies
• 3 pollen beetles
• 18 flea beetles
• 1 cabbage stem weevil

We collected a total of 21 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants (planted 15 April).

There were no diamond-back or turnip moths, but we caught one silver Y moth.

Rosemary Collier : 07 Jun 2014 06:57 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem