All entries for Friday 18 August 2017

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has just been released.

• Single black bean aphids were caught at Dundee and Newcastle this week in the STs (suction traps). However, none was caught in the YWT (yellow water traps).
• Two peach–potato aphids (Myzus persicae) were caught in England at the Kirton ST this week, as well as a single peach– potato aphid in Scotland at Dundee and Gogarbank STs and a single peach–potato aphid caught in the YWT.
• A single mealy cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae) was caught at the Newcastle ST this w
• A single currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri) was caught at the Wye ST this week.
• Single willow ̶ carrot aphids (Cavariella aegopodii) were caught at Dundee and Newcastle this week.
• The parsnip aphid (Cavariella pastinacae) was caught at Dundee (2), Broom’s Barn (1), Hereford (1), Kirton (1), Newcastle (1), Starcross (2) and Wye (1) this week.
• The parsnip aphid (Cavariella theobaldi) was caught at Gogarbank (1), Broom’s Barn (2) and Silwood Park (1) this week.
  

Rosemary Collier : 18 Aug 2017 16:16 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday and today we caught:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 8 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 178 male cabbage root flies and 46 females
• 33 bean seed flies
• 1 pollen beetle
• 48 flea beetles
• 2 cabbage stem weevils
• 1 cabbage stem flea beetle

We also recovered 34 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught 2 diamond-back moths in our pheromone traps

Rosemary Collier : 18 Aug 2017 15:27 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem