Aphid Bulletins

View current and historic aphid bulletins using the links below:

SASA operates four suction traps across Scotland, situated at Edinburgh, Dundee, Inverness and Ayr.
The Edinburgh trap was relocated from East Craigs to Gogarbank, just to the west of the city, in 2005.
The Inverness trap, based at Knocknagael Stud Farm, replaced the historic Elgin trap (which ran from 2002 to 2016) and has been operational since April 2019.
SASA is extremely grateful to the organisations where the traps are sited and to the staff who collect the samples for us.

The Scottish aphid bulletins provide weekly reports on the suction-trap data; this consists of 21 economically important “bulletin” aphid species and any other “non-bulletin” species caught that week.
Data from all four traps is presented (when resources allow) for the relevant bulletin week, showing the number and species of aphids caught, along with the number of days data is available for each trap.
Cumulative data for the Edinburgh and Dundee traps (the three right-hand columns) shows the following:
- total aphid numbers for each species caught for the current year to date.
- total numbers for the same period in the previous year
- the 10-year average for that period
- please note that Inverness and Ayr data is not currently included in the cumulative totals due to data gaps over the last 10 years; these will hopefully be added in due course.

This cumulative data helps place the current aphid activity in context to the previous and an average year; although the 10-year average may be influenced by years with unusually high aphid numbers.

For further information, or to request permission to use bulletin content, please contact the Zoology team.

Gogarbank suction trap Aphid catch under microscope

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