• Pear

  The European or common pear is a perennial, deciduous tree and cultivated for its fruit. The tree grows small, white flowers (about 2.5 cm or 1 inch in diameter) [...] About The so-called European pear or common pear ( Pyrus communis ) is a pear species that originates in central and eastern Europe and southwest Asia

• Chrysanthemum

  striking than the wild varieties. The flower heads can look like daisies or pompoms or buttons. This particular genus consists of many hybrids and an extensive [...] About The chrysanthemum ( Chrysanthemum spp. ), also called mum or chrysanth, is a flowering plant that belongs to the genus Chrysanthemum of the family [...] Nowadays, a wide range of other colours is available such as white, purple and red.

• Brown soft scale

  an elongated oval shape, 3-4 mm long, yellow-green or light grey in colour, with dark brown speckles or spots. The colour of the scale darkens as the female [...] from the egg under the mother’s scale. The pink crawlers are active for two or three days and disperse locally before settling. Once fixed in position, their

• Pear psylla

  Depending on the temperature, there are 3 or more generations per year. Overwintering adults are produced in November or December. [...] Feeding later in the season may affect the harvest of the next year by weakening or killing fruit buds. Pear psyllas excrete large amounts of honeydew. Sooty [...] appearance of Pear psylla Adults pear psyllas are 2-3 mm long and orange red to blackish. They have white, longitudinal stripes on the back of the thorax

• Pine processionary moth

  areas where it may lead to death of trees, directly or as a consequence of attack by bark beetles or other wood-boring insects. In mature forests, trees [...] Mediterranean Sea. It is most conspicuously damaging on pine plantations, or amenity pines. Damage symptoms The nests of caterpillars on infested trees [...] pityocampa is normally annual but may extend over 2 years at high altitude or in northern latitudes. Development lasts 6 months under the most favourable

• Raspberry

  idaeus ), also referred to as red raspberry or occasionally as European raspberry to distinguish it from other raspberries, is a red-fruited species of Rubus [...] strigosus (American Red Raspberry). However, red-fruited cultivated raspberries, even those from North America, usually derive from Rubus idaeus or horticultural [...] of the raspberry plant is red, tasty and sweet but tart-flavoured. Raspberries are a seasonal fruit and produced in summer or early autumn. Botanically

• Steinernema carpocapsae

  adjuvant and/or an anti-desiccant/humectant can be beneficial. Ask your Koppert representative/distributor for more information Spray in the evening (or morning [...] fly larvae . Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes are often applied to the soil or sprayed onto plant foliage as a biological control method, offering a natural [...] control pests through a process called parasitism. When applied to the soil or sprayed onto plant foliage, these microscopic roundworms actively seek out

• Tomato looper

  General The golden twin-spot moth or tomato looper ( Chrysodeixis chalcites ) belongs to the family of Noctuidae . It is a tropical and subtropical species [...] skeletonized. The last two instars may eat the entire leaf except for the midrib or other large veins. On tomatoes, the tomato looper ( Chrysodeixis chalcites [...] marketability. Life cycle and appearance of Tomato looper The tomato looper or golden twin-spot moth ( Chrysodeixis chalcites ) is predominantly brown-gold

• Mushroom

  Mushroom A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source [...] observed with the naked eye). They can appear either below ground (hypogeous) or above ground (epigeous) where they may be picked by hand. Edibility may be

• Cryptolaemus montrouzieri

  eggs are small, oval-shaped, and usually laid individually or in clusters on plant foliage or near mealybug-infested areas. They are typically yellow-white [...] stage: Larvae pupate in various places, on any convenient stalk or on the underside of leaves or on even greenhouse materials. Pupae resemble fullgrown larvae [...] Sometimes other insects related to mealybugs are eaten, such as soft scales or aphids . However, this beetle is most effective in controlling large populations