Summer Flea beetle sampling

As part of our CARP funded project, we set out to do our first round of flea beetle sampling in Lethbridge, AB. We managed to catch ~300 adult crucifer flea beetles and took them back to the lab to measure aspects of their cold tolerance. Spoiler: they were not very cold tolerant, but will be a great baseline for our fall and winter sampling.

Flea beetle gothic

Miguel Saludez (Summer researcher, expert sweeper) and Zoe Boklaschuk (flea beetle technician, #1 aspirator) gearing up for sweeps.

Zoe's homemade aspirators as work

Tube 'o flea beetles

Phylotreta cruciferae

Canola field at Farming Smarter

We are working with folks at Farming Smarter to monitor flea beetles throughout the summer months.

Zoe and Miguel counting our spoils