WIREWORM AND SLUG DAMAGE TO THE POTATO CROP IN SCOTLAND, 1954 to 1960

Abstract

A SUMMARY of wirewomi and slug damage to ware potato crops in Great Britain for the years 1954to 1956(Baker and Waines, 1957) and a paper on wireworm damage to the ware potato crop in England and Wales, 1954 to 1960 (Strickland, Bardner and Waines, 1962 have already been published. In this paper, damage to potato crops in Scotland by wireworms and other soil pests (mainly slugs) is considered for the years 1954 to 1960. Data have been obtained from the Potato Marketing Board. Potato fields were visited two or three weeks before crops were lifted and tuber samples were examined, weighed and graded in the standard crop-check manner. In general, crop checks were made on the same farms each year.