Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results

Information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2018.


Table 14 Other soft fruit biological and molluscicide formulations - 2018

Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated

Biological control agents Non-protected other soft fruit Protected other soft fruit All other soft fruit 2018(1) All other soft fruit 2016(2)
ha % ha % ha kg ha kg
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora 0 0 2 1 2 N/A 136 N/A
Neoseiulus cucumeris 0 0 4 2 4 N/A 0 N/A
Parasitic wasps 0 0 3 1 3 N/A 25 N/A
Steinernema feltiae 0 0 15 4 15 N/A 0 N/A
Steinernema kraussei 0 0 19 3 19 N/A 61 N/A
All biological control agents 0 44 44 N/A 245 N/A
Biopesticides
Bacillus subtilis strain QST 713 4 2 13 6 17 2 0 0
All biologicals(3) 4 2 57 14 61 2 245 N/A
Molluscicides
Metaldehyde 0 0 50 23 50 4 0 0
Area grown 139 218 356 248

(1) In 2018 other soft fruit crops included blueberry, blackberry, gooseberry, redcurrant, aronia, honeyberry, japanese wineberry, jostaberry, loganberry, tayberry, tummelberry, whitecurrant and worcesterberry

(2) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report(3)

(3) All biologicals includes biological control agents and biopesticides

Note: invertebrate biological control agents are applied by number of organisms rather than weight therefore weight data are not presented

N/A = not applicable

Contact

Email: psu@sasa.gov.scot

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