How a little predatory mite laid the foundation for biocontrol today
June 11, 2024
bit of technical advice. In this way, we became consultants as well as producers – something we still do to this very day.’ ‘A few things worked in our [...] he struck on the idea of a natural enemy for this pest,’ Paul Koppert, former CEO and son of Jan Koppert recalls. ‘His journey of exploration took him to [...] and my brother Peter in 1967 when they decided to commercialize the first production of predatory mites for the biological control of spider mite,’ says