The 'Scottish Aphid Bulletin' consists of a table of 21 species, mostly species of major economic significance, and a second table listing all the other 'non-bulletin' aphids caught during the week.

SASA currently operates four suction traps located at Elgin, Dundee, Ayr and at SASA's new headquarters at Gogarbank on the west side of Edinburgh. Data from each of these traps are presented as totals for the duration of each report.

Three additional columns of data are also presented under the title of 'Cumulative Totals'. The first presents the total catch from the four traps for the current year, up to and including the period covered by the report. The second column provides the yearly catch of aphids for the equivalent period during the previous year, i.e. 2008. The final column provides the mean cumulative catch of aphids over the same period during the previous 10 years, i.e. 1999-2008. Presenting the data in this way enables the current year's catch of any species to be viewed in the context of data from both the previous year and an average year. As the last column presents an arithmetic mean, this figure is strongly influenced by those years when the total for that particular species of aphid has been high.

In November 2000, the old Elgin trap stopped operating due to the sale of the site. A new Elgin trap was erected approximately 4 kilometres from the old Elgin site. This trap started collecting aphids on 16 May 2002.  At the end of 2005, the Edinburgh trap ceased operation at the East Craigs site. It was replaced by the Gogarbank trap located 3 kilometres to the south-west of East Craigs.  Therefore, the Edinburgh data since 2006 come from Gogarbank and data for all previous years come from East Craigs. At Elgin, the 10-year mean totals are comprised of data from both the old and the new Elgin sites.