All entries for September 2014

Rothamsted suction trap captures

The latest aphid bulletin has just been released 2014webbulletin22.pdf.

Rosemary Collier : 05 Sep 2014 13:20 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

Between Friday (29th) and Tuesday (2nd) we found:

• 20 carrot flies on traps in this year's carrots (3 traps)
• Total of 78 cabbage root fly eggs from around 15 cauliflower plants.
• There was 1 turnip moth, no diamond-back moths and 1 silver Y moth (2 traps per species).

We have only counted insects from one of the yellow water traps so far:

• 37 male and 22 female cabbage root flies
• 34 bean seed flies
• 5 flea beetles

Rosemary Collier : 02 Sep 2014 17:59 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem