• Tomato leaf miner

  larval instars, a pupal instar and the adult fly. Adult leaf miners are small yellow and black coloured flies , at most only several millimetres long. When

• Caterpillars

  target caterpillar larvae. Sticky traps help monitor pest activity and reduce flying populations. With Koppert’s biological solutions for caterpillars, professional [...] species that are active during the day can be strikingly colourful while moth flying at night are usually inconspicuously brownish are greyish. Adult butterflies

• Pea leaf miner

  larval instars, a pupal instar and the adult fly. Adult leaf miners are small yellow and black coloured flies , at most only several millimetres long. When

• Black vine weevil

  covers are grooved and fused with the body. Therefore, vine weevils cannot fly but can walk very well. They are strictly nocturnal; during the day they hide [...] of females and reproduction is by parthenogenesis. As vine weevils cannot fly their dispersal ability is limited compared to many other insects. Spread

• Chafers

  smaller; about 13-15 mm long and reddish-brown in colour. The adult beetles fly in the evening, generally in June and July and land on trees to mate. During

• Whitefly

  they are often found on the undersides of leaves. Whiteflies are not true flies but belong to the order Hemiptera (true bugs ). Together with aphids and [...] Whiteflies are weak fliers and tend to flutter around plants rather than fly in a straight line. They are often found on the undersides of leaves, where [...] young leaves where they lay their eggs. If the plant is shaken, the adults fly up, and then return to the undersides of leaves. How to prevent whitefly To

• Strawberry

  and diseases. Common pests that occur in strawberries are aphids , fruit flies , leafhoppers , caterpillars, plant bugs , plant parasitic nematodes, beetles

• Beetles

  beneath the wing covers. Many species are very capable fliers but others cannot fly at all. Beetle damage Both larvae and adults of beetles can cause damage to

• Cabbage moth

  grey-brown with white spots, and the abdomen is a pale, greyish brown. The moth flies only at dawn and dusk, hiding in the crop during the day. Several days after

• A life-long passion for predatory mites

  October 21, 2024

  eggs that weight about 20% of their body weight. And they do this 4 to 5 times a day. This means that they have a voracious appetite for pest insects in [...] where they are most needed, unharmed and vital, for a prolonged period of time. ‘Having initially placed 100 mites in the sachet, a thousand can emerge [...] ability to be mass-produced, and unlike other natural enemies, they do not fly away and remain in place when released in open fields. ‘At Koppert, we started