All entries for Friday 12 September 2014

Rothamsted suction trap captures

The aphid bulletin for the week ending 7 September has just been released 2014webbulletin23.pdf. There is also a new edition of AHDB Aphid News ahdb_aphid_news_20140912.pdf.

Rosemary Collier : 12 Sep 2014 20:47 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (9th) and Friday (12th) we found:

• 13 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 65 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There was 1 turnip moth, no diamond-back moths and no silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

The samples from the 3 yellow water traps contained:

• 43 male and 39 female cabbage root flies
• 108 bean seed flies
• 23 small white butterflies
• 30 flea beetles
  

Rosemary Collier : 12 Sep 2014 19:54 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem