All entries for Tuesday 13 October 2015

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Today we found:

• 0 male and 3 female cabbage root flies (3 water traps)
• 24 bean seed flies (3 traps)
• 10 carrot flies (3 traps)
• 1 cabbage root fly egg (15 cauliflower plants)

We will only be trapping carrot fly from now onwards.

Rosemary Collier : 13 Oct 2015 14:56 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Aphid and Turnip yellows virus News

Brassica virus and peach potato aphid update from Wellesbourne, Warwickshire:

• 28/09-5/10/2015. No M. persicae were caught (12 yellow water traps).
• 28/09-4/10/2015. From the Rothamsted Insect Survey suction trap catch, no M. persicae were caught.

Brassica virus and peach potato aphid update from Kirton, Lincolnshire:

• 28/09-5/10/2015. 17 Individuals of M. persicae were caught (12 yellow water traps), 12 of these individuals (71%) were carrying TuYV.
• 28/09-4/10/2015. From the Rothamsted Insect Survey suction trap catch, 2 individuals of M. persicae were caught (12 yellow water traps). One of these individuals was carrying TuYV.

Turnip Yellows Virus (TuYV), formerly known as Beet western yellows virus, is a very important pathogen of vegetable brassicas and oilseed rape. It is spread by the peach potato aphid (Myzus persicae). This data is collected with funding from the BBSRC Horticulture And Potato Initiative (HAPI).

Press release on the new round of HAPI projects involving the University of Warwick

Diana Katschnig and Angela Hambidge, Plant-Virus Interactions Group, University of Warwick

Diana Katschnig : 13 Oct 2015 10:19 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem