All entries for Friday 10 June 2016

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Since Tuesday we have captured:

In pheromone traps (2 per species):

• Turnip moth = 7
• Silver Y moth = 0
• Cabbage moth = 0
• Diamond-back moth = 204

On 3 sticky traps:

• Carrot fly = 30

In 3 water traps:

• Cabbage root fly males = 6
• Cabbage root fly females = 15
• Bean seed flies = 19
• Flea beetles = 146
• Pollen beetles = 144
• Cabbage stem weevils = 20
• Cabbage seed weevils = 9

Cabbage root fly eggs = 9 (15 plants)

Rosemary Collier : 10 Jun 2016 20:36 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Update on aphid captures by Rothamsted suction traps

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has just been released and the most recent information about aphid captures is here - for captures in the week ending 5th June.

• The first peach-potato aphid was caught at Dundee and there was a big hotspot at Wellesbourne (167).
• The willow-carrot aphid was caught at 13 sites with hotspots at Preston (105), Dundee (88) and Wellesbourne (78).
• The pea aphid was caught at nine sites with numbers decreasing at 7 sites.
• The cabbage aphid was caught a nine sites with hotspots at Wellesbourne (112) and Hereford (125).
• Low numbers of the black bean aphid were caught at 4 sites spanning from Dundee to Starcross which remains the hotspot for this species.
• Single currant-lettuce aphids were caught at Dundee and York.
• Parsnip aphids were caught at Preston (Cavariella pastinaceae 25) and single aphids at Kirton and Starcross (both Cavariella theobaldi).

Rosemary Collier : 10 Jun 2016 15:09 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem