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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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

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