All entries for September 2019

AHDB Aphid News

The latest edition of AHDB News has been published.

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

Rosemary Collier : 06 Sep 2019 12:55 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pest update from Wellesbourne

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

• 527 male and 115 female cabbage root flies
• 26 bean seed flies
• 9 flea beetles
• 6 pollen beetles
• 0 cabbage stem weevils
• 2 cabbage stem flea beetles
• 0 cabbage seed weevils
• 2 small white butterflies

There were 26 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps in the new plot for 2019.

253 cabbage root fly eggs were laid between 30th August and 3rd September (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 : 03 Sep 2019 22:31 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem