We have trapped a few more bean seed flies. Totals from 3 yellow water traps:
3 March 4
No carrot flies or cabbage root flies have been trapped.
We've also been counting the aphids on our overwintering carrots again:
3 March 2.7 per plant
All of these are wingless.
Rosemary Collier
06 Mar 2020 10:27
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We have trapped a few more bean seed flies. Totals from 3 yellow water traps:
18 Feb 12
25 Feb 7
No carrot flies or cabbage root flies have been trapped.
We've also been counting the aphids on our overwintering carrots:
10 January (first sowing in 2019) 0.6 per plant
31 January (first sowing) 0.7 per plant
26 February (second sowing in 2019) 14.3 per plant
All of these are wingless.
Rosemary Collier
28 Feb 2020 13:53
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We have had carrot fly traps and yellow water traps out all winter. We have not captured any carrot flies since 10th December but have carried on finding bean seed flies - summarised below:
Bean seed fly counts
26 Nov 36
3 Dec 30
10 Dec 55
17 Dec 15
7 Jan 152
14 Jan 28
21 Jan 4
29 Jan 5
4 Feb 32
11 Feb 11
Rosemary Collier
18 Feb 2020 12:24
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The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been published.
The total numbers of pest aphids captured in the suction traps during the week ending 17 November are as follows: peach-potato aphid (5), potato aphid (0), willow-carrot aphid (3), cabbage aphid (0), currant-lettuce aphid (0), pea aphid (0) and black bean aphid (0).
Rosemary Collier
29 Nov 2019 13:22
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When the water traps in the swede plot were checked today there were:
There were 39 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps.
Rosemary Collier
26 Nov 2019 16:37
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The latest edition of AHDB Aphid Newshas been published.
The total numbers of pest aphids captured in the suction traps during the week ending 10 November are as follows: peach-potato aphid (4), potato aphid (0), willow-carrot aphid (45 at Broom's Barn), cabbage aphid (0), currant-lettuce aphid (0), pea aphid (0) and black bean aphid (0).
Rosemary Collier
22 Nov 2019 16:02
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When the water traps in the swede plot were checked today there were:
There were 10 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps.
No turnip moths or silver Y moths in pheromone traps. There are 2 traps for each species.
Rosemary Collier
19 Nov 2019 16:13
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The latest edition of AHDB Aphid Newshas been published.
The total numbers of pest aphids captured in the suction traps during the week ending 10 November are as follows: peach-potato aphid (10), potato aphid (0), willow-carrot aphid (134 - with 114 at Broom's Barn and 10 at Kirton), cabbage aphid (0), currant-lettuce aphid (1), pea aphid (0) and black bean aphid (3).
Rosemary Collier
17 Nov 2019 07:48
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When the water traps in the swede plot were checked on Tuesday 12th November there were:
There were 17 carrot flies on the 3 sticky traps.
No turnip moths or silver Y moths in pheromone traps. There are 2 traps for each species.
Rosemary Collier
12 Nov 2019 16:27
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The latest edition of AHDB Aphid News has been published.
The total numbers of pest aphids captured in the suction traps during the week ending 3 November are as follows: peach-potato aphid (10), potato aphid (0), willow-carrot aphid (264 - with 229 at Dundee, 10 at York and 14 at Kirton), cabbage aphid (0), currant-lettuce aphid (0), pea aphid (0) and black bean aphid (10).
Rosemary Collier
08 Nov 2019 13:07
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