Knowing & recognizing

ability to recognize the pest or disease you are up against by means of detailed illustrations and close-up photographs. The knowledge gained will equip you

Rhizoctonia solani

sunken. Late infection causes top leaves to curl up. The fruits stay firm. The disease may also show up in storage. Potato tubers get a crusty layer (black

Powdery mildew

colonies later turn brown or grey. Severely affected leaves may turn yellow, curl up or drop off. Life cycle and appearance of Powdery mildew The fungi that cause [...] the haustoria, from which the fungus penetrates the plant cell and takes up nutrients from the epidermal layer of plant cells. Most of the fungus remains

NatuGro in strawberry

Build bigger profits from the ground up with the NatuGro system More than 50 years of experience Our solutions are applied successfully in more than 100 [...] continent The NatuGro system can boost strawberry growers’ crop yields by up to 10 percent. With a proprietary combination of micro-organisms, bio-stimulants [...] trial report here Why choose NatuGro in strawberries Return on investment of up to 500%; Higher production, bigger fruit size and better quality; Contains

Cotton leafworm

veins. Young larvae also bore into buds, which results in shedding or drying up of the buds. Yellowish to dark-green larval excrement protrudes from the holes [...] leafworm Each adult female of the cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis) can lay up to 3,000 eggs. Each egg is roughly spherical, about 0.6 mm long and whitish

Trianum effectively controls Pythium in cucumber

gutters to adjacent mats. ‘We sometimes lost up to 50% of production on the affected mats. It all adds up, and I don’t want to be faced with another situation [...] he started using Trianum, levels of Phythium have decreased dramatically. Up until 2019, there was a lot of damage and loss of production at the end of

House fly

future egg fertilization. When protein-rich food is available, she will lay up to 500 eggs in several batches on decaying organic matter, such as food waste [...] (around 15°C). Adult flies have an average life span of 15–25 days, but can live up to two months in the right conditions.

Biosolutions for Tropicals: Pest Control for Floral and Foliage Crops

around—WFT fecundity is approximately 4x greater in the presence of pollen. Armor Up With Amendments An efficient defense comes from a resilient ecosystem above [...] repotting. It’s also important whenever roots are disturbed or pests show up. Koppert offers a full line of beneficial microbes, biofungicides, and my

Downy mildew of Cucurbits

pathogens produce haustoria, small organs with which the pathogen can take up nutrients from the living plant cells. The pathogens continue to grow inside

La Hacienda Fresh increases crop profitability thanks to biological control

according to region and production conditions. At La Hacienda Fresh, reaching up to 42 weeks has been possible thanks to the reduction of crop stress by reducing [...] to the fact that agrochemical applications have decreased considerably by up to 40%, depending on the cycle," he said. Hacienda Fresh and Koppert have