• Navigating Energy Efficiency, Greenhouse Lighting & Pollination Success

  December 1, 2023

  open for at least two hour periods during favourable conditions. Attention also needs to be given to the type of growing lights used in the greenhouse. Son_T [...] one day, or when less that an average 1,5 biting mark is found. Humidity Is Also A Critical Factor In Bumblebee Activity The use of LED lights, or minimized [...] last 20 years due technological developments and closed energy screens can also impact on humidity levels. It is therefore advisable to activate the plant

• Ornamental Breeder at Floranova Relies on Biological Control

  July 22, 2022

  place at the company’s headquarters near Dereham in Norfolk, but the company also has a joint-venture in India for the production of warm-climate crops. In [...] knowledge helps to inform which products are used where on the site. "We are also using Aphiscout (a mixture of different parasitic wasp species) more this [...] vegetables, such as smaller sized tomato, pepper, chilli and aubergine plants has also expanded over the last ten years, and these can create their own particular

• Neoseiulus californicus

  spider mites . Although Neoseiulus californicus prefers spider mites it can also feed on other food sources such as other mites, thrips or pollen. This predatory [...] including Two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) . The predatory mite can also feed on other food sources such as other mites, thrips or pollen. Feeding [...] predator of Tetranychid mites, i.e. it prefers to feed on spider mites but can also feed and survive on other prey, including other mites, thrips or pollen.

• Cottony soft rot

  General Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, also known as cottony soft root, is a plant pathogenic fungus. It has a very wide range of host plants. Damage symptoms [...] naked eye and look like rat droppings. The symptoms may occur on stems but also on leaves, fruits and pods. Root infection often leads to premature wilting [...] tissue white, fluffy mycelium occurs with new dark sclerotia. The fungus also infects seeds and tubers, thereby creating a source of infection for the

• Angular leaf spot

  changes to a white film when it dries. Lesions may merge as they grow and later also become visible on the upper side of the leaf as irregular spots which are [...] and then become necrotic. The foliar symptoms are the most important, but also all types of vascular tissue of the crown can be infected, creating a look [...] that become the primary source of infection in the spring. The bacteria are also introduced in a crop in new transplants. This bacterium is very resistant

• Foot rot of cereals

  level. This can develop into foot and root rot. Symptomless infections can also occur. Foot rot becomes obvious from late stem extension onwards. It results [...] results in dark-brown staining of the lower nodes. Long dark streaks may also appear at the stem base. On older plants, infection can produce a true foot [...] without obvious bleaching of the ears. The presence of orange/pink spores may also be visible on infected spikelets. As the crop ripens, symptoms become less

• Root and crown rot of strawberry

  clavispora is also called Neopestalotiopsis clavispora. Pestalotiopsis clavispora has been connected to strawberry diseases, but has also been linked to

• Mottled arum aphid

  reduce photosynthesis and also result in an unattractive plant with a much lower market value. Neomyzus circumflexus can also transmit plant viruses. Life [...] attacks many ornamentals , including chrysanthemums, Begonia and Fuchsia, and also sweet pepper. Damage symptoms Large colonies of mottled arum aphids can greatly [...] reduce plant vigour and kill the plant through sucking of plant sap. However, also at lower densities the aphids can damage plants because they produce large

• Vine mealybug

  plants. Fruit and flowers are also fouled, rendering them unfit for sale, and the reduced level of photosynthesis in the leaves also reduces flower and fruit [...] vine mealybug Planococcus ficus belongs to the family Pseudococcidae, and is also known by the names Mediterranean vine mealybug and Grapevine mealybug. As [...] As the name indicates, this mealybug is mostly found on grapevines, but also on figs and pomegranates. Damage symptoms Mealybugs inflict damage on the crop

• Bacterial soft rot, bacterial stem rot

  epiphytic bacteria on various plants or in the soil in low densities. It has also been found in the gut of insects, possibly spreading from decaying vegetation [...] development. Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora or Pectobacterium carovora can also be found as secondary pathogen in plants that are infected by other pathogens