Catégorie : Insectes

Your input is invaluable… Yes I’m going to start this with an unashamed plea for more help. Our chafer and cranefly Pest Tracker is, as far as I can tell the first data gathering exercise of it’s type. Whether you have an issue with these pests or not, please log your sightings on the Syngenta…

With a few more Chafer sightings come in over the weekend and some rain on the horizon. If you are targeting Chafer Grubs then Friday the 7th June is a good time to apply Acelepryn in the South where sightings of Chafer have been recorded. There have been fewer sightings the further North you go…

Although many are suffering with leatherjacket issues still, the Cranefly sightings have begun to slow down a little. The time to apply Acelepryn is still during peak hatch in the Autumn, as that’s our best chance of hitting the largest population. The Spring hatch is still mirroring the dry areas from last Autumn. As predicted…

Thanks everyone for logging your sightings, over 100 Pest views logged so far. So just one week into our data collection project PestTracker and what have we learnt? Tap here to log your sightings. The above heat maps shows the reported sightings on the 17th May 2019 At first glance there is a fairly obvious…

It’s a late hatch this year, for a long period I kept wondering to myself if the incredibly dry summer we’ve had would have dramatically reduce the Cranefly / Leatherjacket population.However it seems whilst I’m not seeing swarms of Cranefly like I have in some previous years there’s still an awful lot of them around…

We are reaching that time of the year when the Cranefly will be on the wing again and as one lifecycle ends another begins. Most of you will be familiar with the Cranefly; the leatherjacket; the damage it can cause – and its appeal to foraging birds and badgers that can ruin surfaces. The leatherJacket…