All entries for Friday 18 May 2018

AHDB Aphid News

AHDB Aphid News for the week ending 13th May has just been published.

• The first arrivals of peach–potato aphids were recorded from five sites, predominantly in the South this week.
• First arrivals of willow ̶ carrot aphids were recorded from a further five sites this bulletin week. Twelve of the fourteen suction-traps have now recorded this species.
• The first arrivals of potato aphids were recorded from Newcastle and Kirton.
• First arrivals of black bean aphid from the suction-trap network were recorded from Broom’s Barn and Wye this bulletin week and in the FERA yellow water-pan trap network from East Anglia.

Rosemary Collier : 18 May 2018 16:03 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 15th and 18th May our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 1 male and 0 females
• Bean seed flies - 7
• Pollen beetles - 32
• Flea beetles - 8
• Cabbage stem weevil - 8
• Cabbage seed weevil - 1

We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 117 flies on 3 traps in overwintered carrots and 200 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 5 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 18 May 2018 15:52 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem