• Larvanem Has Been The Number One Product Against Vine Weevil For Over 25 years

  August 22, 2024

  harm other beneficials. The vine weevil is also unable to become resistant to Larvanem. You'll see how much you benefit.' [...] product used to combat vine weevil. The secret to its continued success lies in its special strain of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora , which is the basis [...] Results According to former product manager Rick van der Pas, Larvanem is the result of intensive research and development. 'That's how we kept on improving

• Mycotal in Salad Crops

  July 5, 2019

  cropping season. How does Mycotal work? Spores are applied to the crop using conventional spraying equipment, which germinate within hours to produce hyphae [...] adjuvant Addit (1.25 ml/l), to improve wetting and sticking, and raise the relative humidity at the laminar boundary layer, to support spore germination [...] in order to achieve good contact with the target pests; select spray nozzles giving a droplet size range of 50-100 µm; angle spray nozzles to achieve good

• Glasshouse potato aphid

  abdomen at the base of the cornicles. Alate (winged) females are yellow-green, with a brown head, a dark thorax and a dark abdomen that has pale to dark [...] leaves or the fruit of sweet pepper it secretes a toxic substance, which leads to deformations in the growing tip of the plant. Precisely where the plant is [...] asexual, the young aphids are born as developed nymphs. They immediately start to feed on plant sap and grow rapidly. When reproduction is sexual, the aphids

• Plum

  fruit that belongs to the subgenus Prunus as well as the genus Prunus . This fruit comes in many species, and taxonomists cannot agree on how many exactly. [...] Depending on who you are asking to, between 19 and 40 different species of plum currently exist. However, only two species, the hexaploid European plum

• Loose smut of wheat

  Infection mostly occurs before pollination and within one to two days after pollination. How to prevent Loose smut of wheat Use clean seed: Apply systemic

• Two-spotted spider mite control in hardy nursery stock grown in polytunnels

  July 20, 2021

  plants often leads to a much wider range of pests that require a mix of ICM solutions to keep pests below population thresholds at which crop damage occurs [...] which plants are prone to TSSM damage, and physically placing them in the same area on the nursery, makes spider mite control easier to implement. It ensures [...] from tall to prostrate, with open or tightly closed canopies, and with and without leaf hairs. “For the protection of tall open canopies we like to use the

• Hop

  grower with the ability to extend up to 20 inches a week, and even 50 ft tall in one season. They are typically trained on strings up to 25 ft tall. The hop [...] Although frequently referred to as hops “vine”, this plant is technically a bine. Bines have stout stems with stiff hairs to aid them in climbing. They are [...] hop is native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere where currently the most acreage of production occurs. Although these plants have a very long life cycle

• Caterpillars

  of caterpillars Caterpillar control videos Take a look at the video or go to our Youtube channel to see our caterpillar control products in action. More [...] plant tissue. Many species cause damage to crops. The most harmful caterpillars that occur in greenhouses belong to the Noctuidae (the noctuid or owl moths) [...] name ‘leafroller’ refers to the fact that the caterpillars often live in rolled-up leaves. Although some species are restricted to a single crop, most are

• Fruit grower uses Natupol Tripol for outdoor pollination

  pollinated optimally by the honeybees present at the time. ‘Bumblebees are more active than honeybees at lower temperatures, and we have found that a [...] then moving them to the apple orchard in early spring. ‘Although the weather has been unpredictable these last few years, we make sure to place our order [...] solutions ‘Pesticides are bad for beneficial insects and anything you can do to make it more sustainable is a good thing,’ Alfred adds. Koppert’s Tripol hives

• Grower Koen - Embracing biological crop protection in agriculture

  the opportunity to continue the business. While the trend towards organic farming was growing, Koen felt that it would be too quick to completely abandon [...] abandon traditional methods. He decided to find a balance between both approaches. This way of working allows him to gain experience in using biological crop [...] protection . As a result, he acquires a lot of knowledge and is prepared to fully transition to biological crop protection when the government decides that certain