• Better insights and digital advice with Natutec Scout

  app as a tool. It allows us to take the measures we need to take quickly, based on the advice provided the consultant. You can act more promptly.’ A threshold [...] threshold, it’s a signal to the grower that he needs to take action. This is how Barry Enthoven of Lema Tomaten in Naaldwijk, the Netherlands sees it, manager [...] is programmed into the app, allows us to see where an infestation is and how it is evolving. It also allows us to see if the natural enemies are curbing

• House fly

  Houseflies are a well-known pest of farm and home. Believed to have originated in central Asia, the insect expanded its range worldwide long ago as a commensal [...] crawl to a cool, dry place near the breeding site to pupate. Flies in the pupal stage are oval-shaped, with bluntly rounded ends, about 8 mm long and change [...] surrounding a farm. Damage symptoms While the house fly, like other saprophagous, coprophagous or necrophagous flies , does not cause any direct damage to animals

• Aphids

  can cause leaves to curl or twist as they feed on the plant sap. How to prevent aphids To prevent aphid infestations in crops, you can take several preventative [...] maintain healthier crops. Aphid control videos Take a look at the video or go to our Youtube channel to see our aphid control products in action. More [...] form a single, very large group of insects: the super- family Aphidoidea, belonging to the order Hemiptera . The aphids discussed here all belong to the

• Thrips

  of hairs. How to prevent thrips Preventing a thrips infestation in your greenhouse crop involves several strategies. Firstly, it's important to maintain [...] larval instars, a pre-pupa and a pupal instar, and finally the adult insect. The eggs are kidney-shaped and have a white or yellow shell. Before a female deposits [...] the pest is present. Thrips control videos Take a look at the video or go to our Youtube channel to see our thrips control products in action. More thrips

• Rancho Los Pinos is nature's ally

  biological control and natural pollination programs. A long and increasingly sustainable road to learning and success The partnership between Koppert and [...] Pinos, they have set out to continue implementing policies and technology to minimise environmental impact. This has allowed them to grow and strengthen their [...] them to increase the productivity and profitability of their crops. The ongoing collaboration between farmers and Koppert lives up to one of its core values:

• Hemp russet mite

  hemp russet mite ( Aculops cannabicola ) belongs to the family Eriophyidae (gall and rust mites). It does not produce galls but lives freely (vagrant) on [...] hemp/cannabis plants. Aculops cannabicola is host specific to hemp/cannabis ( Cannabis sativa ). It cannot survive on other plants. Damage symptoms Damage [...] leaves. This results in smaller leaf size and suppressed bud growth leading to a reduction in the number of buds and dwarfed buds. This damage can reduce

• Accelerating Change in Food Production

  June 20, 2018

  conference encouraged the partners of EIT Food, a pan-EU consortium that focuses on the food sector, to work together to introduce and speed up the urgent changes [...] Henri Oosthoek, remarked that a much greater degree of involvement by the medical world was needed for consumers to understand how food impacted on their health [...] the enthusiasm and ideas to have come out of the meeting. ‘We now need to collaborate with our EIT partners, form business plans, source the necessary funding

• Glasshouse potato aphid

  3.0 mm long) and oval in shape. It has a light yellow-green to brown-green colour, and has an overall shiny appearance. Antennae are marked by a number [...] head, a dark thorax and a dark abdomen that has pale to dark transverse bands. The body shape is similar to wingless females, but is 2.0-3.0 mm long. The [...] solani) pierces the leaves or the fruit of sweet pepper it secretes a toxic substance, which leads to deformations in the growing tip of the plant. Precisely

• Consumers

  around the world to combat pests and diseases in a natural and sustainable way. In this way, we hope to make an active contribution to a sustainable society [...] greenhouses. By the time a delicious little tomato reaches your plate, it has already had a very long journey. The plant first has to form fruit before the [...] therefore sells its products exclusively to professional growers and farmers. In order to provide you with the best possible service as a consumer, we have

• Natutec Drone

  release of a range of biological organisms in record time over large agricultural expanses. It is a unique dispersal mechanism that can carry a wide range [...] Koppert has used its specific know-how about the mechanics needed to disperse different carrier materials, in combination with its knowledge of predatory [...] knowledge and experience in the field, to produce a high-tech dispersal mechanism that transports vulnerable beneficial organisms to disperse them accurately