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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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