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Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results

Information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2018.

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Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated

Biological control agents	Non-protected strawberry		Protected strawberry		All strawberry 2018		All strawberry 2016⁽¹⁾
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Amblyseius spp.	0	0	1	<0.5	1	N/A	0	N/A
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	0	0	9	1	9	N/A	113	N/A
Neoseiulus cucumeris	0	0	71	6	71	N/A	70	N/A
Parasitic wasps	0	0	240	10	240	N/A	0	N/A
Phytoseiulus persimilis	0	0	563	14	563	N/A	68	N/A
Steinernema feltiae	15	25	148	12	162	N/A	0	N/A
Steinernema kraussei	0	0	31	3	31	N/A	114	N/A
All biological control agents	15		1,063		1,078	N/A	374	N/A
Biopesticides
Ampelomyces quisqualis strain AQ 10	0	0	773	12	773	31	0	0
Bacillus subtilis strain QST 713	0	0	1,883	58	1,883	114	767	62
Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki	0	0	98	2	98	32	0	0
Beauveria bassiana ATCC - 74040	0	0	113	10	113	12	6	1
Beauveria bassiana GHA	0	0	28	1	28	4	7	1
All biopesticides	0		2,895		2,895	193	780	64
All biologicals⁽²⁾	15	25	3,958	69	3,973	193	1,154	64
Molluscicides
Ferric phosphate	6	20	355	25	361	75	59	12
Metaldehyde	0	0	412	25	412	71	194	47
All molluscicides	6	20	767	39	773	146	253	59
Physical control
Carbonic acid diamide/urea	0	0	46	3	46	90	24	47
Area grown	30		1,145		1,175		995

(1) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report⁽³⁾

(2) All biologicals includes biological control agents and biopesticides

Note: invertebrate biological control agents are applied by number of organisms rather than weight therefore weight data are not presented

N/A = not applicable

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