All entries for Friday 26 September 2014

Rothamsted Suction Trap captures

The latest aphid bulletin has just been released 2014webbulletin25.pdf together with a new issue of AHDB Aphid News ahdb_aphid_news_20140926.pdf.

Unfortunately there are no data available for Newcastle, Silwood, Wye or Scotland this week.

Rosemary Collier : 26 Sep 2014 18:57 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (23rd) and Friday (26th) we found:

• 6 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 2 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There were 2 turnip moths, no diamond-back moths and no silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

The samples from the 3 yellow water traps contained:

• 5 male and 9 female cabbage root flies
• 57 bean seed flies
• 2 small white butterflies
• 5 flea beetles

Rosemary Collier : 26 Sep 2014 18:55 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (19th) and Tuesday (23rd) we found:

• 7 carrot flies on traps in carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 22 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There were 2 turnip moths, no diamond-back moths and no silver Y moths (2 traps per species).

In 3 yellow water traps within our swede plot there were:

• 3 male and 9 female cabbage root flies
• 33 bean seed flies
• 15 flea beetles
• 2 small white butterflies

Rosemary Collier : 26 Sep 2014 08:10 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem