All entries for Friday 17 August 2018

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has just been released (for the week ending 12th August).

• The peach–potato aphid was found in suction traps at York (2) and Kirton (14).
• The mealy cabbage aphid was found at six sites, increasing at only three.
• One currant-lettuce aphid was found in the Hereford trap.
• Only a single willow ̶ carrot aphid was captured - from York.
• The pea aphid was captured in single figures at six sites, increasing at only Wellesbourne.
• The black bean aphid was only captured at Dundee (4), Gogarbank (11) and York (1).
• The potato aphid was only found in traps at Dundee (1) and Gogarbank (3).

Rosemary Collier : 17 Aug 2018 16:08 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 14th and 17th August our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 32 male and 23 female
• Bean seed flies - 45
• Pollen beetles - 7
• Flea beetles - 202
• Cabbage stem weevil -1
• Cabbage seed weevil - 0
• Cabbage stem flea beetle - 1

We caught 7 carrot flies on 3 sticky traps in our second sowing of carrots.

There were 1 diamond-back moth, 2 silver Y moths, no cabbage moths and 4 turnip moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

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

Rosemary Collier : 17 Aug 2018 15:58 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem