Pest update Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (24th) and Friday (27th) we found:

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

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

• 15 male and 42 female cabbage root flies
• 41 bean seed flies
• 20 pollen beetles
• 144 flea beetles
• 1 cabbage stem weevil

We collected a total of 14 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 newly-planted cauliflower plants (planted 15 April).

There were no diamond-back moths, 3 silver Y moths and 13 turnip moths (2 traps).

On 25th June there were 1 winged and 1 parasitised willow-carrot aphids on 3 x 0.5 m lengths of carrot row.

Rosemary Collier : 27 Jun 2014 19:46 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem