All entries for July 2013
July 02, 2013
Pest update from Wellesbourne for 1st July
On 1st July we recovered:
- 13 carrot flies (3 traps)
- 8 silver y moths (2 traps)
- 3 turnip moths (2 traps)
- 8 cabbage root fly eggs (on 15 new cauliflower plants)
- 36 bean seed flies
- 4 pollen beetles
Rothamsted Insect Survey on Farming Today this morning
Writing about web page http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0367p8r
Richard Harrington from the Rothamsted Insect Survey was on the BBC's Farming Today Programme on Radio 4 this morning (6.22 minutes in). He was talking about the suction trap network and the effects of the late spring on aphid activity.
July 01, 2013
Rothamsted suction trap captures – further details
Here is further information on the pest aphids of vegetable crops captured in the week ending 23 June: aphid_news20130628.pdf
Pest counts Friday 28th June
Pest counts for 28th June were as follows:
- 21 carrot flies (3 traps)
- 1 cabbage root fly egg (15 plants)
- 40 bean seed flies (3 traps)
- 17 pollen beetles and 1 flea beetle (3 traps)
- 7 turnip moths (2 traps)
- 7 silver Y moths (2 traps)