Monday 27 April 2015

2015 Diamondback Moth

April 24, 2015 - A field update from Dr. J. Soroka of AAFC-Saskatoon reports sightings of her first striped flea beetles of the year on yellow sticky card traps set out from April 10-17, 2015.  She also noted that she spotted her first Diamondback moth of the season on the same trap type that was deployed in a shelterbelt on the AAFC Research Farm in Saskatoon from April 17-24, 2015.  Dr. Soroka noted that, "The DBM moth did not appear pristine but neither did it appear to have hitchhiked from Mexico".