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Bumblebee pollination

pollination Open field pollination Best practices Why are bumblebees good pollinators? Bumblebees are very effective and efficient pollinators as they visit [...] more pollen to the stigma than other pollinators. Benefits of bumblebees are: Bumblebees switch between trees and rows while pollinating. This benefits [...] pollination which is often required in various fruit or seed crops. Bumblebees are active from early morning till late at night and also at relatively low t

Bugs

Hemiptera Bugs What are bugs? Heteropteran bugs form a group in the order Hemiptera , a highly diverse group of insects, containing both harmful and beneficial [...] beneficial species. Heteropteran bugs are insects which have flattened bodies and fold their wings flat over their body when at rest. The wings overlap [...] the dorsal midline. Some bugs produce a pungent odour. Heteropteran bugs are hemimetabolous insects. Their life cycle consists of an egg, usually five

Two-spotted spider mite

size, they are capable of very rapidly doing severe damage, due to their great reproductive capacity. There are more than 1200 species worldwide and many [...] of two-spotted spider mite Two-spotted spider mites are small and have eight legs. Adult females are about 0.5 mm long. They have an oval body that is rounded [...] the crop in which they occur (e.g. on cucumbers they are often yellow-brown, on tomatoes they are mainly red-brown). Both males and females usually have

Flies

Diptera Flies What are flies? There are several flies that are pests in agriculture, horticulture and mushroom cultivation. Species that can cause damage [...] damage or nuisance, are particularly small flies of the families Sciaridae ( sciarid flies ) and Ephydridae (shore flies). The larvae of these insects generally [...] generally live on rotting plant material and are mostly found in the soil. The spotted wing drosophila , Drosophila suzukii , has recently developed into

Beetles

Coleoptera Beetles What are beetles? Beetles belong to the order Coleoptera, a well-known group of insects that are easily recognizable on account of their [...] variety of form, size and habit. A number of species are a serious pest in crops or stored products. There are many useful beetles as well. For instance, ladybirds [...] possess a pair of membranous wings beneath the wing covers. Many species are very capable fliers but others cannot fly at all. Find solutions for beetles

Leaf miners

this family, only eleven are truly polyphagous. The species that cause most damage all belong to the genus Liriomyza and are very common in temperate regions [...] Diptera Leaf miners What are leaf miners? Leaf miners belong to the order Diptera (the true flies ) and form the family Agromyzidae. This is a family of [...] flies whose larvae tunnel into the leaves of plants, creating ‘mines’. There are many species of leaf miner affecting various crops in temperate parts of the

Caterpillars

Lepidoptera Caterpillars What are caterpillars? Caterpillars are the larvae of butterflies and moths. Butterflies and moths form the order Lepidoptera [...] more than 150,000 species, that are easily distinguishable from other insects. Many of the butterfly species that are active during the day can be strikingly [...] strikingly colourful while moth flying at night are usually inconspicuously brownish are greyish. Adult butterflies do not damage crops. Most of them feed