Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results

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


Table 6 Raspberry insecticide and acaricide formulations - 2018

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

Insecticides/acaricides Non-protected raspberry Protected raspberry All raspberry 2018 All raspberry 2016(1)
ha % ha % ha kg ha kg
Abamectin 0 0 184 57 184 2 152 1
Clofentezine 0 0 2 1 2 <0.5 6 1
Cyantraniliprole 0 0 5 3 5 <0.5 0 0
Deltamethrin 7 7 69 30 76 1 94 1
Etoxazole 0 0 7 3 7 <0.5 0 0
Lambda-cyhalothrin 9 7 21 13 30 <0.5 31 <0.5
Pirimicarb 0 0 3 2 3 <0.5 0 0
Pymetrozine 0 0 6 4 6 1 0 0
Pyrethrins 0 0 45 23 45 3 5 <0.5
Spinosad 0 0 11 3 11 1 0 0
Tebufenpyrad 0 0 8 5 8 1 6 <0.5
Thiacloprid 23 20 174 67 197 24 116 14
All insecticides/acaricides 40 27 536 96 576 34 446 36
Area grown 113 162 276 329

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

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