All entries for Friday 25 May 2018

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been released - for the week ending 20th May.

• The warm and dry weather conditions has resulted in another substantial increase in the total number of aphids flying this bulletin week.
• Peach・potato aphids (Myzus persicae) were recorded from Writtle and Starcross but no new arrivals were found. An individual was caught in the FERA yellow water-pan trap network from the Midlands.
• The first arrival of willow ̶ carrot aphids were recorded from Dundee and Newcastle this bulletin week. All fourteen suction-traps have now recorded this species as well as yellow water traps across several parts of England.
• The first arrival of potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae) was recorded from Silwood this week.
• First arrival of black bean aphid (Aphis fabae) from the suction-trap network was recorded from Starcross this bulletin week and in yellow water traps from East Anglia.
  

Rosemary Collier : 25 May 2018 15:59 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 22nd and 25th May our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 7 males and 3 females
• Bean seed flies - 16
• Pollen beetles - 11
• Flea beetles - 2
• Cabbage stem weevil - 1

We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 4 flies on 3 traps in overwintered carrots and 128 flies on 3 traps in spring-sown carrots.

There were no diamond-back moths, silver Y moths or cabbage moths in our traps but one turnip moth - the first of the year (2 traps per pest).

There were 9 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 25 May 2018 15:56 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem