• How do you identify a ‘thrips intruder’?

  September 20, 2021

  length, shape of the antenna, hairs on the head and thorax, pattern on the head and thorax, fringe and hair on the forewings, and pattern on the forewings [...] help you get started with a few rules of thumb. Echinothrips americanus is the easiest to identify: these thrips have black and orange stripes on the abdomen [...] depending on the ambient temperature and the food source. In this respect, thrips are real chameleons! Females of the western flower thrips can be white, but

• Webinar Fit Roots for Plant Health

  March 2, 2020

  From 2004 on, his special fields of interest have been the physical backgrounds of plant behavior and interaction with climate conditions based on water and [...] condition to get the best possible plant health . When: Tuesday March 17, 2020 Where: Online Duration: 60 minutes Subject: Fit roots for Plant Health Time: 9am [...] during this webinar: Awareness of the importance of micro-organisms in the root zone (soil life) Awareness of the importance of soil conditions (temperature

• How beneficial nematodes control onion fly

  larvae of the onion fly can cause significant damage to the roots and bulbs of onions and related plants, sometimes even killing seedlings. To combat this [...] dangerous stage for the plants, as the larvae feed extensively. Once the initial host plants are damaged, the larvae move from one plant to another, increasing [...] flies lay their eggs near the base of onion plants. Hatching from the eggs, the larvae crawl behind the leaf sheaths to enter the bulbs, where they feed

• Just How Compostable are Ulti-Mite Sachets?

  October 23, 2019

  and the timeframe is limited to 12 weeks. For example, an apple on the side of the road or a tomato in the green waste of a greenhouse company. Industrial [...] pioneers: A journey of biocontrol innovations Rhyzobug – ready to deal with armored scales An impressive range of predatory mite solutions thanks to continuous [...] whitefly The various stages of the spider mite Getting a handle on the spider mite – how can you keep population development under control? Release Spical

• Free Webinar series; Implementing Plant Empowerment

  May 19, 2020

  Partners of Plant Empowerment start a free webinar series of four webinars. Participants will learn how to implement the basic principles of Plant Empowerment [...] according to the principles of Plant Empowerment. Watch this video in which Jan Voogt, one of the authors of the book, explains what makes Plant Empowerment [...] IPM: The Answer to the Challenges of the Future IPM: The Path to a Successful Approach The How and Why of IPM Koppert IPM app Vlaardingen, Netherlands

• Podcast with Tech On Demand: A Biological Approach to Spring IPM, featuring Koppert’s Heidi Doering

  March 7, 2025

  importance of relationships in this regard, and gives her thoughts on Thrips parvispinus—the pepper thrips hitchhiking their way North on tropical plants. It’s [...] listen. Be sure to stay tuned until the very end! Heidi has worked with Koppert for the past decade and is one of the most well-informed plant experts regarding [...] In this week’s episode of Tech on Demand host Bill Calkins discusses spring pest control, integrated pest management , and implementing biocontrol strategies

• Effective Biological Control: Keep a Close Eye on Everything

  April 9, 2019

  in order to recognize and ‘identify’ them. Where should you look to find insects? This varies by crop and by pest. Sometimes you need to focus on the top [...] top or on the older leaves or flowers. In some cases, it is useful to concentrate on the top of the leaves, and in others the bottom. Good monitoring requires [...] example, are easy to identify. In the case of crop wilting, it is more difficult to determine the culprit, as there can be various causes. And to diagnose a bacterial

• Biodiversity: Research into our positive impact on nature

  May 23, 2022

  due to the loss of habitats, the use of pesticides in agriculture, acidification of our soil, and climate change. Biodiversity is the foundation of all [...] ‘Explaining the positive impact Koppert has on biodiversity is of vital importance to secure the market position of biological solutions within the industry [...] IPM: The Answer to the Challenges of the Future Sustainable Cultivation Goes Much Further than Pests and Natural Enemies IPM: The Path to a Successful Approach

• Bacterial canker of tomato

  one side of the plant. They turn brown but don’t fall off. On stems and shoots light stripes form, which then tear, allowing cankers to form. On tomato leaves [...] infect the new plants by entering through wounds and then growing into the vessels of the plant. Plant growth is inhibited and the plant wilts because the [...] field crops of at least two years and alternate with a non-host crop Apply deep-ploughing to stimulate the decay of crop residues Prevent plant diseases by

• Downy mildew of Cucurbits

  stomata. Because there are more stomata on the underside of the leaf, this is where most fluffy symptoms are found. How to prevent Downey mildew Choose resistant [...] They cause lesions on the upper leaf surface, bordered by the veins, which are first yellow and then turn brown. On the underside of the leave fluffy growth [...] first white and later turns grey-brown. This is actually the sporulation of the pathogens extruding from the stomata. Life cycle and appearance of Downy