All entries for Saturday 01 December 2018

AHDB Aphid News

The last edition of AHDB Aphid News for ths year has been published. This if for the week ending 25th November.

• Peach–potato aphids were captured at Writtle (1) and Wye (2).
• No mealy cabbage aphids or willow-carrot aphids (Cavariella aegopodii) were captured.

Rosemary Collier : 01 Dec 2018 07:06 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

We are now emptying the traps weekly rather than twice-weekly.

Between 20th and 27th November our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 0
• Bean seed flies - 14
• Pollen beetles - 0
• Flea beetles - 1
• Cabbage stem weevil - 0
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 3

We caught no carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our second sowing of carrots.

Rosemary Collier : 01 Dec 2018 07:01 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem