All entries for Friday 10 August 2018

Pest update from Wellebourne

Between 7th and 10th August our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 2 male and 5 female
• Bean seed flies - 16
• Pollen beetles - 24
• Flea beetles - 438
• Cabbage stem weevil - 2
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 2
• Small white butterfly - 1

We caught 28 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our first sowing of carrots and 8 carrot flies on our traps in the second sowing.

There were no diamond-back moths, no silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 10 turnip moth in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 7 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 10 Aug 2018 16:19 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News is available (week ending 5th August).

• The peach–potato aphid was recorded from six suction trap sites, increasing at Newcastle. There was a hotspot at Kirton (67).
• The potato aphid was recorded from Dundee, Gogarbank and Newcastle, with numbers increasing at only Newcastle.
• The mealy cabbage aphid was recorded from 10 sites but decreasing across the country, apart from Hereford (where there was an increase).
• One currant-lettuce aphid was recorded from the Kirton ST this week.
• No willow ̶carrot aphids were recorded.
• The pea aphid was recorded from nine sites, increasing at only Newcastle and Hereford. The highest number was recorded from York (42).
• The black bean aphid was caught at five sites. There was a hotspot at Dundee (32).

Rosemary Collier : 10 Aug 2018 16:16 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem