Legume Pest Monitoring Systems
April 12, 2023
growers in recent years. Pea midge is a pest that affects mainly vining peas, although combining peas are occasionally attacked. The larvae feed in the flower [...] at several sites in Yorkshire in 2021, the monitoring system has been shown to work well, accurately predicting early summer emergence of midges, and allowing [...] apply insecticides. Work in 2021 showed that the activity period of midges was longer than normally expected, midges flying for up to 4 weeks at some sites