All entries for Friday 29 August 2014

Rothamsted suction trap captures

The latest aphid bulletin has just been released. There were very low numbers of the pest aphids of vegetable and salad crops 2014webbulletin21.pdf.

There is also an edition of AHDB Aphid News - which relates to oil seed rape crops ahdb_aphid_news_20140829.pdf

Rosemary Collier : 29 Aug 2014 17:15 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Tuesday (26th) and Friday (29th) we found:

• 15 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 68 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There were 4 turnip moths, no diamond-back moths and 1 silver Y moth (2 traps per species).

The 3 yellow water traps caught:

• 85 male and 36 female cabbage root flies
• 129 bean seed flies
• 9 flea beetles
• 1 small white butterfly

Rosemary Collier : 29 Aug 2014 17:12 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem