Pest update Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (17th) and Friday (20th) we found:

• 24 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)

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

• 8 male and 26 female cabbage root flies
• 61 bean seed flies
• 120 pollen beetles
• 74 flea beetles

We collected a total of 69 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants (planted 15 April).

There were no diamond-back or silvery Y moths but 5 turnip moths (2 traps).

On 18th June there were 4 winged, 10 wingless and 4 parasitised willow-carrot aphids on 3 x 0.5 m lengths of carrot row.

Rosemary Collier : 20 Jun 2014 17:16 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem