All entries for February 2020

Update on pest activity at Wellesbourne

We have trapped a few more bean seed flies. Totals from 3 yellow water traps:

18 Feb 12

25 Feb 7

No carrot flies or cabbage root flies have been trapped.

We've also been counting the aphids on our overwintering carrots:

10 January (first sowing in 2019) 0.6 per plant

31 January (first sowing) 0.7 per plant

26 February (second sowing in 2019) 14.3 per plant

All of these are wingless.

Rosemary Collier : 28 Feb 2020 13:53 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Update on pest activity at Wellesbourne

We have had carrot fly traps and yellow water traps out all winter. We have not captured any carrot flies since 10th December but have carried on finding bean seed flies - summarised below:

Bean seed fly counts

26 Nov 36

3 Dec 30

10 Dec 55

17 Dec 15

7 Jan 152

14 Jan 28

21 Jan 4

29 Jan 5

4 Feb 32

11 Feb 11

Rosemary Collier : 18 Feb 2020 12:24 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem