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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.
Table 14 Other soft fruit biological and molluscicide formulations - 2018
Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated
| Biological control agents | Non-protected other soft fruit | Protected other soft fruit | All other soft fruit 2018(1) | All other soft fruit 2016(2) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ha | % | ha | % | ha | kg | ha | kg | |
| Heterorhabditis bacteriophora | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | N/A | 136 | N/A |
| Neoseiulus cucumeris | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | N/A | 0 | N/A |
| Parasitic wasps | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | N/A | 25 | N/A |
| Steinernema feltiae | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 15 | N/A | 0 | N/A |
| Steinernema kraussei | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 19 | N/A | 61 | N/A |
| All biological control agents | 0 | 44 | 44 | N/A | 245 | N/A | ||
| Biopesticides | ||||||||
| Bacillus subtilis strain QST 713 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| All biologicals(3) | 4 | 2 | 57 | 14 | 61 | 2 | 245 | N/A |
| Molluscicides | ||||||||
| Metaldehyde | 0 | 0 | 50 | 23 | 50 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Area grown | 139 | 218 | 356 | 248 | ||||
(1) In 2018 other soft fruit crops included blueberry, blackberry, gooseberry, redcurrant, aronia, honeyberry, japanese wineberry, jostaberry, loganberry, tayberry, tummelberry, whitecurrant and worcesterberry
(2) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report(3)
(3) 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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Email: psu@sasa.gov.scot
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