• Natutec Drive takes centre stage

  January 6, 2021

  tubes, on a flow of air. The application process is controlled from a touch-screen inside the tractor cab, by simply selecting the product name and the rate [...] “When I arrive on farm with the demonstration model, the grower is pleasantly surprised. It’s a jaw-dropping moment. Growers are amazed by the visual quality [...] heavily involved in the design and manufacture of the Natutec Drive from the beginning, and I am looking forward to seeing this in practise on strawberry farms

• False spider mites

  found on the underside of leaves where they cause a brown, scabby discolouration spreading from both sides of the main vein into the leaf blade. The damage [...] and adult. They move slowly and are mostly found along the veins on the underside of leaves. The mites are flattened and egg-shaped when seen from above [...] of the plant. In some crops, plants can become misshapen, presumably because the mites secrete a substance while feeding, that is poisonous to the plant

• Blackcurrant aphid

  spinal stripe. The distal third of the siphunculi is slightly swollen. In spring, the blackcurrant aphid lives on the underside of the young leaves of [...] present in the Russian Far East and North America. Damage symptoms Blackcurrant aphids produce large amounts of sticky honeydew on which black sooty mould [...] each moult they shed white skin, betraying their presence in the crop. Wingless females of the blackcurrant aphid are 1.3-2.6 mm long and pale greenish white

• Feltiella acarisuga

  Make a hole in the lid and place the cup on the rock wool slab or directly on the soil Protect against direct sunlight and water Leave the cup in place for [...] according to the colour of prey eaten and may sometimes be yellow or red. Immediately after emerging from the egg, the larva is yellowish white. The eggs and [...] red spot appears anterior to the midline, after which the entire larva becomes darker. Finally, white spots appear on the body. A fully grown larva is

• Strawberry aphid

  one of the most serious pests affecting strawberry plants. Direct damage is caused by the aphids sucking sap from the plant, which reduces the yield and [...] and quality of fruit. The leaves do not become distorted but leaves and fruits quickly become sticky due to the honeydew the aphids excrete. Black sooty [...] sooty mould fungi grow on the honeydew. The strawberry aphid is an important vector of several plant viruses affecting strawberries. Life cycle and appearance

• Trianum effectively controls Pythium in cucumber

  sorts of conditions have a bigger impact on the beneficials than on the thrips, which means I need to be alert. The same goes for caterpillars , since there’s [...] 2020. Based on the fungus Trichoderma harzianum T-22, the product colonizes the plant’s root system and keeps pathogenic fungi away from the roots. He puts [...] farm. Hendriks releases Montdorensis every week on half of his crop – the even rows one week, the odd rows the next. He hangs a sheet of insect netting with

• Minusa

  develop inside the leaf miner pupa. The adult wasp will emerge from the pupa. Visual effect It is not possible to see on the outside if the leaf miner larvae [...] Release parasitic wasps between the leaves of the crop in the morning or in the evening Dosage The dosage of Minusa depends on climate, crop and leaf miner [...] action The adult female parasitic wasps of Dacnusa sibirica preferably lay their eggs inside first and second instars of the leaf miner larva. The parasitic

• Large raspberry aphid

  General The large raspberry aphid, Amphorophora idaei, is the most important aphid species found on raspberries in Europe. It only feeds on raspberry. [...] in spring, the aphids mainly feed on the underside of leaves and start to reproduce parthenogenetically. They are very mobile and drop from the plant when [...] to reduce yield by direct feeding damage. The major problem is the spreading of various raspberry viruses by the aphids. Life cycle and appearance of Large

• A Growing Success at Welgro Produce

  January 12, 2022

  episode of the RTE 1 television series ‘Ear to the Ground’ aired on Thursday 18 th November. During the RTE coverage David explained some of the technical [...] Carty, who have grown cucumbers on the nursery since the 1970’s. “It is good to have so much encouragement and support from the local community and especially [...] growing conditions, the predatory midge larvae of Aphidoletes ( Aphidend ), which feed on the black aphid Aphis gossypii , and the parasitic wasp, Aphidius

• Large blackberry aphid

  siphunculi. The cauda is short and triangular. The aphids overwinter as eggs on blackberry plants. After emerging in spring, the aphids mainly feed on the underside [...] host specific the host plant is the simplest method to distinguish these two species. The large blackberry aphid is widely distributed in Europe and also [...] General The large blackberry aphid, Amphorophora rubi , is very similar to the large raspberry aphid Amphorophora idaei . As both aphid species are host