This is the final report of the 2022 potato psyllid / Lso monitoring season. The two psyllids captured last week tested negative for Lso, the bacterium associated with zebra chip disease (ZC). It was an interesting year with very low psyllid captures overall, but relatively high incidence of Lso. About 22% of all psyllids tested…
This week we received traps from 66 of the 72 fields that we are monitoring this year. We found a total of 17 psyllids across 11 (17%) of the 66 fields observed. Psyllids were captured from three fields in Canyon County on traps that had been deployed for two weeks. Psyllids were captured in the…
This is a turnip aphid, Lipaphis pseudobrassicae, a common aphid in the upper snake river plain (and across the country) that uses a wide variety of mustard family species as a secondary host. It is a known vector of PVY.
