All entries for Friday 23 August 2019

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB News has been published.

Very low numbers of peach-potato aphid (2), potato aphid (0), willow-carrot aphid (2), cabbage aphid (0), currant-lettuce aphid (1), pea aphid (1) and black bean aphid (1) were captured in suction traps during the week ending 18^th August.

Rosemary Collier : 23 Aug 2019 15:08 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps in the swede plot were checked today there were:

• 221 male and 28 female cabbage root flies
• 26 bean seed flies
• 37 flea beetles
• 26 pollen beetles
• 0 cabbage stem weevils
• 8 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils
• 1 small white butterfly

There were 27 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the new plot for 2019.

148 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 20th and 23rd August (around 15 plants).

One diamond-back moth, 0 turnip moths, 0 silver Y moths and no cabbage moths were captured in pheromone traps. There are 2 traps for each species.

Rosemary Collier : 23 Aug 2019 15:07 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem