Category: Acelepryn

The pattern and timing of crane fly sightings remains the same this year as it did last year. The reports are coming in thick and fast now and the amount of you engaging in this citizen science data gathering exercise is amazing. Last season we saw the hatch start around the same time but then…

It’s started and pretty much at exactly the same time as last year. Sightings form course managers on PestTracker are on the up. I suspect we’ll see a similar pattern to last year and see the period of hatching stretched over the next 3 to 4 weeks. So assuming you’ve seen Cranefly hatching, the next…

There seems to be no obvious pattern in the location of the hatches this year. I was desperately hoping there would be. There are no obvious links to climatic differences. Again I was hoping there would be something! I’ve spoken to a few people who are reporting seeing nothing on the golf course but seeing…

In 2019 the second week of September was the week we began to see an increase in Cranefly Hatching. This is important to know because when applying Acelepryn we want to ensure the majority of Cranefly eggs are in the ground. The Emergency Authorisation has been extended to the end of October this year giving…

Fires in the South, flooding in the North. In one part of the country we’re talking with turf managers about managing heat and drought stress and in another we’re already discussing disease management strategies. I begin to wonder how will this crazy weather impact Cranefly hatching? Whilst July was a fairly lacklustre month for any…

Acelepryn Timings. For chafers, yes. For leatherjackets, not yet. Chafer grubs About a month ago I wrote a blog about acelepryn timing for chafers and advised waiting – but NOW is the time to apply. At the time I showed how last year we had pretty much seen the end of the chafer hatch by…

Chafer flight patterns are following last years pretty much exactly the same. I’ve been sent a lot of photos and videos the last week of Chafers that are flying. All the photos are of Summer Chafers but we are you are reporting sightings on PestTracker of all the Chafer species. The question I’m now being…

Chafer Here we are in 2020 and I’m running through the data from last years Syngenta PestTracker data and comparing it to this years. To date, sightings are pretty much the same as last year. Below are the results form last year, 2019 And here are the results so far for 2020, Cockchafer, Garden Chafer…

NEWS: Wednesday 10th June 4pm GMT – Live Acelepryn Q and A Webinar with Henry Bechelet from ICL and me answering your questions – register here. The Emergency Authorisation for Acelepryn in 2020 has been granted only for Chafers and whilst we are waiting for the second authorisation to be approved by the EPC I…

Well it’s started – I wrote a couple of weeks back about (click here to see …) the two distinct hatches we saw in Craneflies last year. This Spring has been painful for Course Managers and I suspect we are now seeing the true scale of the challenge we face managing this pest. We have…