• Flies

  while traps and attractants reduce adult populations and support monitoring. With Koppert’s biological solutions for flies, professional growers can achieve [...] , Drosophila suzukii , has recently developed into a major pest on soft fruits in Europe and North America. Sciarid flies and shore flies are mainly a [...] Europe and the Americas where it is causing serious damage to many soft fruit crops. Fly damage Flies can cause damage to crops both directly and indirectly

• Crickets

  damage in greenhouse and field crops by feeding on young plants, roots, and fruits. Their chewing creates wounds that slow plant growth and increase the risk [...] cricket larvae and nymphs, reducing populations quickly and effectively. With Koppert’s biological solutions for crickets, professional growers can protect

• American serpentine leaf miner

  this can lead to burning in fruit such as tomato and melon. Loss of leaves also reduces yield. In full-grown plants of fruiting vegetable crops, however, [...] Feeding spots made by adult females can also reduce yield, although except with ornamental crops, this is usually of less significance. Seedlings and young [...] before pupating, the grown larva cuts a sickle-shaped exit hole in the leaf with its mouth parts. After roughly one hour the larva crawls out of the leaf

• Broad mite

  tissue can also develop on fruit. Where pierced cells are killed, deformed corky patches frequently appear causing misshapen fruits that often crack open at [...] leaf or on the fruit surface. The elongated, oval eggs are firmly attached to the surface and are rather large (about 0.07 mm) compared with the subsequent [...] stems. The growing tips of affected plants acquire a misshapen appearance, with contorted leaves and sporadic brown discolouration caused by cork formation

• Choosing parasitic wasps for different pests

  Integrate with other IPM strategies: Combine parasitic wasps with other biological control tools as predators and bioinsecticides and with cultural practices [...] cotton aphid , and other soft-bodied aphids . It is ideal for vegetables, fruits, and greenhouse crops. Diglyphus isaea: Targeting leaf miners , this parasitic [...] highly effective against caterpillars such as corn borers, armyworms, and fruit moths. They work by laying their eggs inside pest eggs, preventing larval

• Tomato russet mite

  may snap. The fruit can also be affected, and when this happens in tomatoes, the skin becomes coarse and turns reddish brown and the fruit itself is sometimes [...] soft and segmented. The body appears to be divided into two parts: the head with the mouthparts, and the rest of the body. All mobile stages have only two [...] orange-yellow in colour, wedge-shaped and very small (roughly 0.17 mm in length), with males being slightly smaller than the females.

• Tobacco aphid

  honeydew, making the crop and its fruit sticky. Black fungal moulds ( Cladosporium spp.) grow on this honeydew, contaminating fruit and ornamental crops and rendering [...] Life cycle and appearance of Tobacco aphid Aphids have a complex life cycle, with both winged and wingless forms of adults and a great variety in colour. When [...] sap and grow rapidly. Aphids moult four times before reaching adulthood. With each moult they shed white skin, betraying their presence in the crop. The

• Tomato leaf miner

  this can lead to burning in fruit such as tomato and melon. Loss of leaves also reduces yield. In full-grown plants of fruiting vegetable crops, however, [...] Feeding spots made by adult females can also reduce yield, although except with ornamental crops, this is usually of less significance. Seedlings and young [...] before pupating, the grown larva cuts a sickle-shaped exit hole in the leaf with its mouth parts. After roughly one hour the larva crawls out of the leaf

• Glume blotch

  lesions with a light halo on leaves, stems and glumes. In the centre of the lesions, light-coloured translucent pycnidia (fruiting bodies) with new spores [...] Glume blotch Remove crop debris Use clean seed Be careful with overhead irrigation Be careful with chemicals that limit stem elongation when the lower leaves [...] merge, turning the whole leaf necrotic. On glumes, similar brown lesions with pycnidia and perithecia occur. Perithecia are also formed on dead glumes

• The journey of sustainable citrus farming in agriculture

  actively controlling mealybugs with Citripar and Cryptobug , armoured scales with Aphytis and Rhyzobug and spider mites with Spical Ulti-Mite . These biocontrol [...] Balbino Garre Martínez, a grower with over 35 years of experience in citrus and livestock farming. Balbino, along with his two brothers, operates "Explotación [...] change Balbino's agricultural journey hasn't been without obstacles. Faced with different pests, he sought alternative solutions, leading to the adoption