Psyllid captures still moderate, no new Lso

ByErik Wenninger Potato Psyllid/Zebra Chip Monitoring Program
  • This week we received traps from 17 fields that we are monitoring. Many fields have undergone vine kill and/or monitoring on them has otherwise ceased.
  • We captured a total of 17 psyllids across 6 fields.
  • Captures were from Gooding, Jerome, and Twin Falls counties.
  • Among the 43 psyllids captured last week, none tested positive for Lso.

Psyllid captures were on par with the low-to-moderate numbers that we saw during the past few years at this time. Thankfully all the psyllids from last week again tested negative for Lso; we haven’t had any Lso-positive psyllids since early August. This should have been the last week of reporting on psyllid captures, but the busy season delayed retrieval of traps from some fields, so we hope to have those numbers next week. In the meantime, we encourage you to maintain your IPM programs, especially in areas that have had higher captures of Lso-positive psyllids this season.