All entries for Friday 14 September 2018

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been released:

• The peach–potato aphid was captured at 5 suction trap sites, with only Preston catching more than one individual.
• No potato aphids were captured.
• Single mealy cabbage aphids were captured at Gogarbank and Kirton.
• No currant-lettuce aphids were captured.
• Willow ̶ carrot aphids were only found in the suction traps at Dundee (4) and Kirton (1).
• Pea aphids were captured at Wellesbourne (2) and Writtle (1).
• The black bean aphid was captured at Gogarbank (2), Kirton (1) and Writtle (1).

Rosemary Collier : 14 Sep 2018 17:04 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 11th and 14th September our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 88 male and 40 female
• Bean seed flies - 35
• Pollen beetles - 9
• Flea beetles - 38
• Cabbage stem weevil - 0
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 4

We caught no carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our second sowing of carrots.

There were no diamond-back moths, 1 silver Y moth, no cabbage moths and 5 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 13 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 14 Sep 2018 16:57 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem