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Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops
Published:
31 Oct 2017
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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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.
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)