All entries for Thursday 14 September 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and Tuesday (12th) we found the following:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 24 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 33 male cabbage root flies and 48 females
• 54 bean seed flies
• 2 pollen beetles
• 9 flea beetles

We recovered no cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 2 turnip moths and five silver Y moths in our pheromone traps.

Rosemary Collier : 14 Sep 2017 21:07 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Brassica aphids and virus News

The proportion of peach potato aphid (M. persicae) carrying Turnip yellows virus (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 as part of project ‘Developing integrated approaches for pest and disease control in horticultural field crops’ with funding from the BBSRC Horticulture And Potato Initiative (HAPI).

Diana Katschnig and Angela Hambidge, Plant-Virus Interactions Group, University of Warwick; Alex Greenslade, Rothamsted Research & Rothamsted Insect Survey; Carl Sharp, Allium & Brassica Agronomy Ltd.

Angela Hambidge : 14 Sep 2017 15:54 |  Tags: Aphid Tuyv |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem