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Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops
Published:
31 Oct 2017
This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2016.
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Supporting files
Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops
Table 13: Other soft fruit insecticide, molluscicide and biological
Table 13: Other soft fruit insecticide, molluscicide and biological
formulations - 2016
Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated
| Insecticides/acaricides | Non-protected other soft fruit | Protected other soft fruit | All other soft fruit crops | 2014 (1) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Ha) | (%) | (Ha) | (%) | (Ha) | (%) | (Ha) | |
| Abamectin | 0 | 0 | 25 | 14 | 25 | 10 | 7 |
| Deltamethrin | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 1 |
| Lambda-cyhalothrin | 5 | 5 | 52 | 29 | 57 | 22 | 57 |
| Pyrethrins | 0 | 0 | 125 | 39 | 125 | 28 | 109 |
| Spinosad | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| Thiacloprid | 11 | 17 | 257 | 93 | 268 | 72 | 155 |
| All insecticides/acaricides | 29 | 31 | 465 | >99 | 494 | 81 | 410 |
| Molluscicides | |||||||
| Ferric phosphate | 0 | 0 | 40 | 12 | 40 | 9 | 1 |
| All molluscicides | 0 | 0 | 40 | 12 | 40 | 9 | 4 |
| Biological control agents | |||||||
| Aphidoletes aphidimyza | 0 | 0 | 23 | 12 | 23 | 9 | 0 |
| Heterorhabditis bacteriophora | 0 | 0 | 136 | 39 | 136 | 29 | 0 |
| Parasitic wasps | 0 | 0 | 25 | 7 | 25 | 5 | 0 |
| Steinernema kraussei | 0 | 0 | 61 | 19 | 61 | 14 | 42 |
| All biological agents | 0 | 0 | 245 | 46 | 245 | 34 | 42 |
| Area grown | 68 | 180 | 248 | 172 | |||
(1) For full list of formulations recorded in 2014 please refer to the 2014 report (3)