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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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

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