All entries for Friday 24 May 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

When the water traps were checked at Wellesbourne today there were:

Traps in the new swede plot (the traps in the old plot have been removed):

• 12 male and 2 femaie cabbage root flies
• 32 bean seed flies
• 258 flea beetles
• 209 pollen beetles
• 23 cabbage stem weevils
• 15 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 7 cabbage seed weevils
  

There were 19 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the overwintered carrot plot and 380 flies in a newly-sown plot.

26 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 21 and 24 May (around 15 plants).

Two diamond-back moths were captured. No moths were captured in our other pheromone traps (silver Y moth, cabbage moth, turnip moth). There are 2 traps for each species.

Rosemary Collier : 24 May 2019 15:27 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been released for the week ending 19 May.

• Peach-potato aphid - captured at 11 sites and numbers have increased across much of England.
• Potato aphid - captured at 14 sites and numbers have increased at 9 sites.
• Cabbage aphid - captured at 4 sites.
• Willow-carrot aphid - captured at 14 sites. Numbers have increased by around 560% across Britain this week, reaching three figures at York and Preston.
• Pea aphid - captured at 7 sites but in single figures.
• Black-bean aphid - 8 sites.
• Currant-lettuce aphid - 2 sites.

Rosemary Collier : 24 May 2019 14:34 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem