• Poinsettia. Main pest pressures

  May 21, 2019

  serious damage to the cuttings, to the extent of killing them. The larvae feed on the young roots of the plants, and can then progress into the stem, if not [...] planting; this is key to ensuring that cuttings can form roots without being damaged, and after 14 days the roots should be sufficiently mature to avoid damage [...] Whitefly The glasshouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum , and the tobacco whitefly , Bemisia tabaci , a non-native notifiable pest, are reported to be the

• Koppert and CABI collaborate on making more biological controls available

  October 8, 2018

  that ultimately allow farmers to grow more and lose less to agricultural pests and diseases.’ Following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, [...] follows the success of earlier collaboration in Kenya in March this year in which CABI and the Koppert Foundation stepped up their efforts to combat pests [...] which threaten the food security and livelihoods of thousands of farmers and their families. Under the new agreement, more training is also envisaged for