Friday, September 13, 2019

Trap Catches Identified to September 13, 2019


Greetings

The season is winding down with only 3 trap locations reporting this week.  Aphid numbers are decreasing in the reporting locations, harvest has begun.

Ada MN has had high aphid numbers for the entire season but vector numbers were down by half of last week's.  The trap at Crookston had lots of insects but no aphids, the Humboldt MN trap recovered only 5 vectors and 6 total aphids.  Corn Leaf, Cotton/Melon and Soybean aphids were the most common species recovered overall this week.

As always, keep on scouting!

Scouting for aphids in potatoes:
- Select leaves from the lower to mid canopy. Start at the edge of the field.
- Lower, older leaves will have more established colonies and aphids prefer the balance of nutrients found here; aphids are rarely found on leaves in the upper canopy.
- Avoid leaves on the ground or in contact with the soil.
- In seed potatoes there is only a threshold for PLRV (10 aphids/100 leaves), reactive application of insecticides an effective control for PVY.
- The use of feeding suppressing insecticides, such as pymetrozine (Fulfill®) or flonicamid (Beleaf®) and refined crop oils, such as Aphoil and JMS Stylet Oil, at or prior to field colonization by aphids may reduce the transmission of PVY within fields. Some other insecticides, such as clothianidin (Belay®), imidacloprid (Admire Pro® or Provado®), and spirotetramat (Movento®), have also been demonstrated to reduce the transmission of PVY.
- In table stock potatoes, a treatment threshold of 30 aphids /100 leaves should deter yield loss due to aphid feeding.

The PVY Risk Index Index
Not all species of aphid are equally efficient at transmitting PVY, some are better than others (green peach being the most efficient vector of PVY).  So, the total number of aphids in a trap don't necessarily reflect just how much vector pressure there is at that location.  The PVY Vector Risk Index compares aphid numbers, incorporating their relative vector efficiency compared to the Queen of PVY vectors (green peach aphid!).  Using averaged reference comparisons from the literature, we multiply the number of each aphid species captured by its efficiency compared to Green Peach Aphid to more accurately depict risk posed by the species being trapped.  We then sum the totals.  The PVY-VRI values are presented on the tables below but also on maps comparing current cumulative risk to the total risk from the sample sites of last year (to compare with your local winter grow out results).

Click on any image below for full-scale version.

Cumulative PVY Vector Risk Index to September 13, 2019.

Cumulative PVY Vector Risk Index for 2018 (for comparison)

Aphid Species Capture and PVY Vector Risk Index for Sept. 06 - 13, 2019



Cumulative Aphid Species Capture and PVY Vector Risk Index to Sept. 13, 2019