All entries for Friday 07 September 2018

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been released:

• The peach–potato aphid was captured in suction traps at five sites, with numbers increasing at three towards the north of Britain.
• No potato aphids were captured.
• The mealy cabbage aphid was captured at five sites, increasing at three.
• No currant-lettuce aphids were captured.
• Only 9 willow ̶carrot aphids were captured – 8 at Dundee and 1 at Rothamsted.
• Pea aphids were captured at Preston (3), Wellesbourne (1) and Hereford (2)
• The black bean aphid was caught at four sites with single aphids found at all but Dundee (8).

Rosemary Collier : 07 Sep 2018 20:18 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 4th and 7th September our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 45 male and 52 female
• Bean seed flies - 30
• Pollen beetles - 6
• Flea beetles - 53
• Cabbage stem weevil - 0
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 0

We caught 8 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 3 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 7 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 07 Sep 2018 19:41 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem