Furthermore, I'm not really trying science. I did not formulate a hypothesis or design an experiment, nor will I analyze the results and draw conclusions. My role is to dangle yellow sticky cards in my tomato beds in hopes of trapping critters who like to visit tomatoes. The creature of interest is the potato psyllid, a major pest of solanaceous crops in North America. An environmental science researcher sent me the traps. I can't quite follow the instructions, which direct me to set the cards at least 10-20 metres into the crop; you probably can't get even half of a metre into any of my tomato beds without being closer to the other side. Alors, I doubt that data from my garden will make it into a scientific journal, but that doesn't mean it is not of any use.
Already caught my first specimen. Don't know what it is. Psyllids are of the order Hemiptera - true bugs. The picture I saw looked more like a waspish fly than a bug. Good thing someone else is conducting the actual science in this project.
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