This week we received traps from 20 of the 55 fields that we are monitoring. Thirty-three fields have been vine killed or are senescing and are no longer being monitored. We captured a total of 6 psyllids across 3 fields. The three fields were in Canyon, Elmore, and Twin Falls counties. This is our last…
This week we received traps from 31 of the 55 fields that we are monitoring. Twenty-two fields have been vine killed or are senescing and are no longer being monitored. We captured a total of 15 psyllids across 7 fields. Five of the fields were in Canyon County, and the other two fields were in…
This week we received traps from 35 of the 55 fields that we are monitoring. One field was vine killed and we are still waiting on traps from 19 sites. Many of these fields could not be entered earlier in the week so traps were shipped to us late. We captured a total of 30…
This week we received traps from 49 of the 55 fields that we are monitoring. We captured a total of 44 psyllids across 14 fields. Ten of the fields were in Canyon County; the remaining 4 fields were in Payette, Elmore, and Twin Falls counties. Total psyllid captures ticked up slightly, at least in the…
This week we received traps from 50 of the 55 fields that we are monitoring. We captured a total of 30 psyllids across 12 fields. Seven of the fields were in Canyon County, the remaining 5 fields were in Payette, Owyhee, Elmore, and Twin Falls counties. Total psyllid captures were similar to last week, and…
This week we received traps from 46 of the 55 fields that we are monitoring. We captured a total of 29 psyllids across 13 fields. Nine of the fields were in Canyon County, the remaining 4 fields were in Payette, Owyhee, Gooding, and Twin Falls counties. Total psyllid captures were slightly higher than last week,…
This week we received traps from 53 of the 55 fields that we are monitoring. We captured a total of 21 psyllids across 9 fields. Six of the fields were in Canyon County, the remaining 3 fields were in Payette, Owyhee, and Twin Falls counties. Total psyllid captures were slightly higher than last week, but…
This week we received traps from 46 of the 55 fields that we are monitoring. We captured a total of 10 psyllids across 4 fields. Three of the fields were in Canyon County and one was in Twin Falls County. Total psyllid captures were similar to last week, and we continue to see relatively low…
This week we received traps from all 55 fields that we are monitoring. We captured a total of 14 psyllids across 10 fields. Seven of the fields were in Canyon County; the remaining 3 fields were in Owyhee, Twin Falls, and Minidoka counties. One of the psyllids we collected last week from Canyon County was…
The University of Idaho and our crop consultant collaborators across the state are once again monitoring for potato psyllids, zebra chip disease (ZC), and liberibacter (Lso), the bacterium associated with ZC. The monitoring program covers commercial potato fields throughout southern Idaho and is funded in part by the Idaho Potato Commission and generous in-kind contributions…
