Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops

A revised version of this report has been issued to correct inaccuracies in active substance application weight data that were overestimated in the original report. This issue only affects certain herbicide active substances in relation to quantity applied. Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2016.

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Table 7: Raspberry biological and molluscicide formulations - 2016

Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated

Biological control agents Non-protected raspberry Protected raspberry All raspberry 2014 (2)
(Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha)
Neoseiulus californicus 0 0 <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 0
Phytoseiulus persimilis 0 0 3 1 3 1 0
Steinernema kraussei 0 0 <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 29
All biological agents 0 3 3 45
Biopesticides
Bacillus subtilis 0 0 64 24 64 15 0
Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki 0 0 7 4 7 2 0
All biopesticides 0 72 72 8
All biologicals (1) 0 0 75 26 75 16 53
Molluscicides
Ferric phosphate 0 0 <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 0
All molluscicides 0 0 <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 12
Area grown 131 199 329 314

(1) All biologicals includes biopesticides and biological control agents

(2) For full list of formulations recorded in 2014 please refer to the 2014 report (3)

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