• Ulti-Mite: Revolutionising biocontrol with innovative predatory mite sachets

  compostable Ulti-Mite sachets are crafted from specially developed foil that is 100% industrial compostable, meaning they can be responsibly disposed

• Tomato looper

  brown-gold with two conspicuous droplet-shaped white marks on the forewing that sometimes overlap each other. The hindwings are brown. The body is brown

• Garden chafer

  horticola ). These flights are carried out by the males, who mate with females that stay close to the ground. Females start to deposit eggs into the soil at

• Tomato leafminer

  filiform antennae, alternating light or dark segments and recurved labial palps, that are well developed. Black spots are present on the anterior wings. Adults

• Potato aphid

  plant sap and grow rapidly. When reproduction is sexual, the aphids lay eggs that overwinter. In greenhouses reproduction also takes place by parthenogenesis

• Cottony cushion scale

  Immature cottony cushion scales have black limbs and an orange-brown body that is coated with white and yellow wax. The adult ‘females’ are easily recognized

• Pepper weevil

  before wilting and dropping off. When you see fruit on the ground, it is clear that the crop has been very severely damaged. Lifecycle and appearance of the

• American serpentine leaf miner

  serpentine leaf miner (Liriomyza trifolii) eats its way outwards from its egg, so that its mines join to form small plates. In various other crops one finds in

• Tomato leaf miner

  surface but more commonly on the underside. The late third instar larva, that emerges from its tunnel just prior to pupating, is known as a prepupa. This

• Western flower thrips

  prepupa, the pupa has longer, more developed wing buds and longer antennae that are curved back over the head. The prepupal and pupal instars do not feed