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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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Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops
Table 17: Strawberry biological, molluscicide and physical control active substances - 2016
Table 17: Strawberry biological, molluscicide and physical control active substances - 2016
Area (ha), Quantity (kg) and percentage of crop treated
| Biological control agents | Non-protected strawberry | Protected strawberry | All strawberry | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Ha) | (%) | (Kg) | (Ha) | (%) | (Kg) | (Ha) | (%) | (Kg) | |
| Heterorhabditis bacteriophora | 0 | 0 | NA | 113 | 7 | NA | 113 | 6 | NA |
| Neoseiulus californicus | 0 | 0 | NA | 9 | <0.5 | NA | 9 | <0.5 | NA |
| Neoseiulus cucumeris | 0 | 0 | NA | 70 | 3 | NA | 70 | 3 | NA |
| Phytoseiulus persimilis | 0 | 0 | NA | 68 | 7 | NA | 68 | 7 | NA |
| Steinernema kraussei | 0 | 0 | NA | 114 | 12 | NA | 114 | 11 | NA |
| All biological agents | 0 | NA | 374 | NA | 374 | NA | |||
| Biopesticides | |||||||||
| Bacillus subtilis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 767 | 40 | 62 | 767 | 37 | 62 |
| Beauveria bassiana ATCC - 74040 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Beauveria bassiana GHA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| All biopesticides | 0 | 0 | 780 | 64 | 780 | 64 | |||
| All biologicals (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,154 | 47 | 421 | 1,154 | 43 | 421 |
| Molluscicides | |||||||||
| Ferric phosphate | 3 | 2 | 1 | 56 | 4 | 12 | 59 | 4 | 12 |
| Metaldehyde | 0 | 0 | 0 | 194 | 17 | 47 | 194 | 16 | 47 |
| All molluscicides | 3 | 2 | 1 | 250 | 21 | 59 | 253 | 20 | 59 |
| Physical control | |||||||||
| Carbonic acid diamide/urea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 47 | 24 | 1 | 47 |
| Area grown | 75 | 920 | 995 | ||||||
(1) All biologicals includes biopesticides and biological control agents. NA = not applicable
Note: invertebrate biological control agents are applied by number of organisms rather than weight therefore data are not presented