Pest update Tuesday, 6th May

Between Friday (2nd) and Tuesday (6th) we captured:

• 178 carrot flies on traps in the overwintered carrots (3 traps)
• 915 carrot flies on traps in newly-emerged carrots (3 traps)

In the 3 water traps:

• 111 male and 25 female cabbage root flies
• 372 bean seed flies
• 15 pollen beetles

We collected a total of 102 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants (planted 15 April).

We caught 1 diamond-back moth (2 traps.)

We have pheromone traps out for European tarnished plant bug and common green capsid - and caught 1 European tarnished plant bug.

Rosemary Collier : 09 May 2014 08:54 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem