All entries for Friday 11 May 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 8th and 11th May our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 30 males and 10 females
• Bean seed flies - 59
• Pollen beetles - 29
• Flea beetles - 2
• Cabbage seed weevil - 1
• Cabbage stem flea beetles - 3

We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 116 flies on 3 traps in overwintered carrots and 51 flies on 3 traps in newly-sown carrots.

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

There were 12 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 11 May 2018 17:38 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been released - for the week ending 6th May.

• In accordance with the increase in average air temperature, the total number of aphids flying and species diversity has increased substantially this bulletin week.
• The first peach–potato aphid (Myzus persicae) of the year was found at Rothamsted this week.
• First arrivals of willow ̶ carrot aphids were recorded from six sites this bulletin week (York, Preston, Kirton, Hereford, Writtle and Silwood).
• The first arrivals of potato aphids (Macrosiphum euphorbiae) were recorded from Writtle and Starcross.
• No black bean aphid (Aphis fabae) have been recorded yet this year from any of the suction-traps.
  

Rosemary Collier : 11 May 2018 17:22 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem