All entries for Friday 10 May 2019

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been released for the week ending 5 May.

• Peach-potato aphid - captured at 10 sites
• Potato aphid - captured at 8 sites
• Cabbage aphid - captured at 3 sites
• Willow-carrot aphid - captured at 10 sites
• Pea aphid - captured at 9 sites
• Black-bean aphid - 5 sites
• Curraant-lettuce aphid - 4 sites

Species recorded in double figures include the peach–potato aphid from Broom’s Barn and Writtle; the willow-carrot aphid from Preston and Silwood Park; and the black bean aphid from Writtle and Silwood Park.

No samples were received from Newcastle this week.

Rosemary Collier : 10 May 2019 20:57 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps were checked at Wellesbourne today there were:

Traps in last year's swede plot

• 15 male and 9 femaie cabbage root flies
• 38 bean seed flies
• 11 flea beetles
• 133 pollen beetles
• 7 cabbage stem weevils
• 4 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils

Traps in the new swede plot

• 18 male and 1 femaie cabbage root flies
• 38 bean seed flies
• 31 flea beetles
• 27 pollen beetles
• 0 cabbage stem weevils
• 9 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 1 cabbage seed weevils
  

There were 91 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the overwintered carrot plot and 374 flies in a newly-sown plot.

109 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 7 and 10 May (around 15 plants).

No moths were captured in our pheromone traps (diamond-back moth, silver Y moth, turnip moth, cabbage moth).

Rosemary Collier : 10 May 2019 20:54 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem