All entries for Friday 30 August 2019

Pest update from Wellesbourne

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

• 176 male and 33 female cabbage root flies
• 14 bean seed flies
• 22 flea beetles
• 3 pollen beetles
• 1 cabbage stem weevil
• 5 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils

There were 10 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the new plot for 2019.

38 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 27th and 30th August (around 15 plants).

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

Rosemary Collier : 30 Aug 2019 19:15 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB News has been published.

Low numbers of peach-potato aphid (3), potato aphid (0), willow-carrot aphid (8), cabbage aphid (1), currant-lettuce aphid (0), pea aphid (2) and black bean aphid (5) were captured in suction traps during the week ending 25^th August.

Rosemary Collier : 30 Aug 2019 19:12 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem