Catégorie : Insectes

You’ll remember that most sightings of our winged friends, chafer grubs have been around the South of England, as the heat map below shows. This week we have had a few sightings of Welsh Chafer logged on the Syngenta PestTracker around the Colchester and Cambridge area. This isn’t a significant shift in area but could…

One of the questions I’m getting regularly asked at the moment is « I haven’t seen any chafers yet this year, should I still apply Acelepryn and if so when should I apply it? » The sightings for chafers on the Syngenta PestTracker have now slowed down and I would expect all chafers now to be fully…

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…