All entries for Friday 31 August 2018

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been released:

• The peach–potato aphid was captured at Kirton (19) and Hereford (1).
• Only a single potato aphid was captured - at Dundee.
• The mealy cabbage aphid was captured at four sites, but increasing at only Preston (8) and Kirton (26).
• A single currant-lettuce aphid was captured in the Hereford suction trap.
• Only four willow ̶ carrot aphids were captured - at Dundee.
• Single pea aphids were captured at Dundee, York and Wye.
• The black bean aphid was only caught at Dundee (9), Gogarbank (3) and Hereford (1).

Rosemary Collier : 31 Aug 2018 16:25 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 28th and 31st August our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 113 male and 103 female
• Bean seed flies - 54
• Pollen beetles - 8
• Flea beetles - 109
• Cabbage stem weevil - 0
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 2
• Small white butterfly - 1

We caught 16 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our second sowing of carrots.

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

There was 1 cabbage root fly egg around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 31 Aug 2018 16:20 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem