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Fruit Pest Trap Count Record
A free printable fruit pest trap record: each trap with its lure and position, lure and liner changes, every count in a dated grid, and your biofix date.
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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
Read the start of a pest flight off your own counts instead of guessing it. Empty checks are written down too, because a run of zeros is what dates the first catch.
Who it is for
Fruit growers, community orchards and allotment holders using pheromone or bait traps.
How to use it
- Number each trap and fill in its line: pest, trap type, lure, where it hangs and the date set.
- Count every trap at each check and write the counts on page two, zeros included.
- Mark every lure, liner and bait change in the Changed column, since catches can jump or drop after one.
- When the counts meet your source's definition of a sustained catch, write the biofix date and what follows from it.
- Total each trap at the end of the season.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: Each trap registered once, then every count in a dated grid with lure and liner changes logged, so the date catches began in earnest is read off the record instead of guessed.
Count, then follow your own source. What counts as the first sustained catch (the biofix), what you do from that date and how often lures and liners are changed come from your advisory service or the trap maker; none of those is printed here. Write down every check, including the empty ones: a run of zeros is what shows when the flight began.
Write-on lines: Orchard or garden · Season · Checked by · Advisory source followed
Traps — numbered once; each number heads a column of the count grid
Also printed: Trap · Pest targeted · Trap type · Lure or bait · Hung in · Set on · Taken in · delta, bucket, cup · and its lot or date · tree, row or block · date
First sustained catch — your call, against your source's definition
Also printed: Pest · Biofix · Traps · How you defined it · Source · What follows · date · nos. · first sustained catch · what you do from it
Page 2
Counts — for flies counted by sex, write males / females in the trap's box
Also printed: Count in each trap · Date · Days · Changed · Notes · checked · since last · initials · trap: L, C, B · weather, damage · Total · Changed: write the trap number with L for a new lure, C for a new liner or card, B for fresh bait. Catches can jump or drop after a change.
Questions
What is a biofix?
The date a grower takes as the start of a pest's flight, usually the first sustained catch in the traps; timings for scouting or treatment are then counted from it. What counts as sustained differs between advisory services, so the sheet asks you to write your source's definition.
Why is no action threshold printed?
Thresholds differ by pest, crop, region and trap, and they change as advice is updated. Take any figure from your advisory service and note it beside the biofix, so your decision rests on a current source.
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