All entries for Tuesday 26 September 2017

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday and today we found the following:

On 3 sticky traps:

• 100 carrot flies

In 3 water traps in a plot of swedes.

• 36 male cabbage root flies and 13 females
• 26 bean seed flies
• 10 pollen beetles
• 2 flea beetles
• 1 cabbage stem weevil
• 1 cabbage sten flea beetle

We recovered 0 cabbage root fly eggs from the soil around 15 cauliflower plants (new plants).

We caught no moths in our pheromone traps.

Rosemary Collier : 26 Sep 2017 17:40 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Brassica aphids and virus News

The proportion of peach potato aphid (M. persicae) carrying Turnip yellows virus (TuYV)

Turnip yellows virus (TuYV), formerly known as Beet western yellows virus, is a very important pathogen of vegetable brassicas and oilseed rape. It is spread by the peach potato aphid (Myzus persicae).

This data is collected as part of project ‘Developing integrated approaches for pest and disease control in horticultural field crops’ with funding from the BBSRC Horticulture And Potato Initiative (HAPI).

Diana Katschnig and Angela Hambidge, Plant-Virus Interactions Group, University of Warwick; Alex Greenslade, Rothamsted Research & Rothamsted Insect Survey; Carl Sharp, Allium & Brassica Agronomy Ltd.

Angela Hambidge : 26 Sep 2017 09:59 |  Tags: Aphid Tuyv |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem