Department: Glass
Cleared and watered water fountain bed in Display. I helped trim back the
Pilea nummularifolia - a trailing type in the
Pilea collection in Greg's Tropical House by about 2/3rd.
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| Photo 1 |
Then I assisted him with some pest monitoring. This should usually be done every week. There is a worksheet with all the potential pests that might be present. Yellow and blue traps have been laid out throughout the houses. Yellow attracts things like whitefly and thrips like blue. You look at each trap, record trap number and then write how many you see of each expected pest. When you have counted the pest you put a ring with a black marker around each insect or groups of if too many. The expected insects are thrips, Western Flower Thrips, Whitefly, Sciarid Mealy Bug. (I didn't learn how to identify these so well here, but did in Prop later in the year). If numbers are more than 6 I just record mass.
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| Photo 2: Pest monitoring worksheet. |
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| Photo 3: Circling the pests on the traps after counting them. |
In the tropical zones there are cockroaches - as well as spraying them, they put out the traps in Photo 4 below. They have a bad smell that the cockroaches like and are attracted to, which has a glue inside and when they go into they get stuck and then die.
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| Photo 4: Sticky Cockroach trap. |
