If I think back to April 2021, and read through Last year’s April FAQ’s I’m reminded that April last year was cold and dry and LeatherJackets were in full attack mode. Well here we are, one year later and I’m mostly talking to people about how cold and dry and cold it is and how…
Month: April 2022
When to start Primo Maxx II, 2022
This is the time of the year to be thinking when should I start my Primo Maxx programme? We’ve been talking more and more in recent years about growth degree days and this is a trend set to continue. Primo Maxx has been used for a long time now and I’ve seen a lot of…
The 2022 LeatherJacket Craze
2021 was the year my inbox was overloaded with images of people sheeting greens. 2022 is the year people send me pictures and videos of leatherjackets on marathon journeys! I spoke a lot last Autumn about the ability for these things to travel some distance, I suspected they could do 10 meters a night if…
Heading into May – Cranefly hatch
As we head into the last week of April the Cranefly hatch reports are beginning to come in. It feels early still (See blog here that I wrote but forgot to post!! from Early April) but we’re seemingly behind 2019 and 2020. 2022 was a cold slow Spring and never really produced a peak hatch.…
Cranefly hatch? Feels early?
Based on historic PestTracker data on average we begin to see craneflies in the second week of April. Whilst I still can’t believe how it’s happened, we are very quickly approaching the second week of April. As always though the averages mask and hide a number of nuances If we look back through the years…