All entries for May 2018

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between 1st and 4th May our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 72 males and 18 females
• Bean seed flies - 122
• Pollen beetles - 133
• Flea beetles - 4
• Cabbage stem weevils - 1
• Cabbage seed weevils - 2

We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 121 flies on 3 traps.

There were no diamond-back or silver Y moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were 9 cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants.

Rosemary Collier : 04 May 2018 16:11 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been released - for the week ending 29th April.

• In accordance with the more seasonal cooler air temperature and wetter conditions, the total number of aphids flying and species diversity has decreased this bulletin week.
• No willow-carrot aphids were caught this bulletin week.
• So far this year, no peach-potato aphids, potato aphids or black bean aphids have been caught in any of the suction traps.

Rosemary Collier : 04 May 2018 16:10 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne 1st May

Between 27th April and 1st May our 3 yellow water traps captured:

• Cabbage root flies - 16 males and 5 females
• Bean seed flies - 198
• Pollen beetles - 1
• Flea beetles - 1

We also checked the carrot fly traps and caught 9 flies on 3 traps.

There were no diamond-back or silver Y moths in our traps (2 traps per pest).

There were also no cabbage root fly eggs around our 15 brassica plants!

Rosemary Collier : 01 May 2018 22:05 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem