• Greenhouse crop pollination

  more stable and sustainable agricultural industry. For the past 40 years we have been at the forefront of developing cutting-edge pollination solutions for [...] horticultural industry. With decades of experience and extensive research, we have gained in-depth knowledge of pollinators and their behavior. Our team of

• Apple

  being cultivated, each with their own characteristics. Ripe apples usually have a red, yellow, green, pink, or russetted coloured skin. Additionally there [...] of the apple is protected by a layer of epicuticular wax. Apples usually have a yellowish-white coloured exocarp. Sometimes their flesh is also pink or

• Pepino mosaic virus

  the crop cycle when the infection takes place is another factor that might have an important impact on the damage that is caused. For instance, an infection [...] Nettle-like heads and/or bubbling of the leaves Stunted leaf growth Leaves have a pale or grey colour Necrotic and dying leaves Yellow (chlorotic) and brown [...] diseased. This can also occur when objects such as clothing or telephones have been in contact with infected crops. If one plant in a greenhouse contracts

• Tree specialist Wolterinck: Control of oak processionary caterpillar with Entonem

  effective around ten days in and if the trees have at least 30% of their leaf cover, Bacillus thuringiensis can also have a good combatting effect.’ Staunch advocate

• Cottony cushion scale

  scale insects, the females do not have wings and look similar to the immature stages. Immature cottony cushion scales have black limbs and an orange-brown [...] General The cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi , is considered to have originated in Australia. It was accidentally introduced to California in about

• Garden chafer

  grasses. Third instar larvae can also feed on bigger roots. After the roots have been destroyed the larvae move into corms, rhizomes and stem bases of plants [...] instar and the adult beetle. Adult garden chafers ( Phyllopertha horticola ) have red-brown slightly hairy wings with a dark edge. The neck shield is metallic [...] time become nearly spherical through water absorption. Chafer larvae (grubs) have brown heads and whitish bodies, and normally lie in a characteristic 'C-shaped'

• Green peach aphid

  glossy. Winged individuals have a brown-black head and thorax and a yellow-green to green or even reddish abdomen. They have a dark brown spot on the abdomen [...] of the growing tips. Life cycle and appearance of green peach aphid Aphids have a complex life cycle, with both winged and wingless forms of adults and a

• Hemp russet mite

  and the rest of the body. All mobile stages have only two pairs of legs, whereas other mite groups have four pairs. The hemp russet mite has four life

• Bugs

  both harmful and beneficial species. Heteropteran bugs are insects which have flattened bodies and fold their wings flat over their body when at rest. [...] thorax between the wing bases. This distinguishes them from beetles , which have hard, leathery forewings that meet, but do not overlap, in the dorsal midline

• Treatment of bumblebee stings and allergies

  sting. Living with a bumblebee allergy If you have had an allergic reaction once, you will not necessarily have an allergic reaction to the next sting. If [...] health problem as it is not a substitute for medical care. If you have or suspect you may have a health problem, please consult medical care. [...] than honeybees, and hairier than wasps. Only bumblebee workers and queens have a stinger, as is the case with honeybees and wasps. Drones cannot sting.