All entries for Friday 22 July 2016
July 22, 2016
Update on Rothamsted suction trap captures – week ending 17th July
A new edition of the Rothamsted Insect Survey Aphid Bulletin has been published (week ending 17th July). The latest edition of AHDB APHID News is here.
- Numbers of peach–potato aphid (Myzus persicae) and the potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae) remain very low this week.
- The numbers of willow ̶carrot aphid (Cavariella aegopodii) flying are now very low everywhere.
- A single currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri) was caught at Rothamsted.
- Numbers of parsnip aphids (Cavariella pastinaceae 1 at Preston and 3 at Starcross but no Cavariella theobaldi), are also very low.
- Numbers of the black bean aphid (Aphis fabae) are conspicuously low, both for the time of year and compared to the large migrations seen in 2015.