• Bugs

  control Learn more about What are bugs? Heteropteran bugs form a group in the order Hemiptera , a highly diverse group of insects, containing both harmful and [...] attract and eliminate harmful bugs in different crop stages. With Koppert’s biological solutions for bugs, professional growers can protect their crops [...] their body when at rest. The wings overlap each other exposing the scutellum, a prominent triangular region of the thorax between the wing bases. This dis

• Jeremy Webber Discusses Limonica In GrowerTalks Magazine

  February 1, 2025

  grower and as a trusted biocontrol advisor. He’s worked with greenhouses of all sizes, growing a wide range of crops—edibles, ornamentals , and more—and developing [...] Koppert’s US Ornamental Consultant Team Manager, Jeremy Webber, has an article in the February, 2025 edition of GrowerTalks magazine. In A Meaner Mite [...] and has a tremendous amount of knowledge regarding modern (IPM) strategies to share. His extensive background in the industry includes years as a grower

• Bios To The Rescue In GrowerTalks

  March 2, 2026

  facilities, and was Director of Operations for a large perennial wholesale nursery. Jeremy’s shipped a wide range of perennials, shrubs, annuals, and edibles [...] Koppert’s Jeremy Webber has an article in the February 2026 issue of GrowerTalks. It’s an insightful take on the bio vs chemical pesticide dynamic. Titled [...] Titled Bios To The Rescue , the piece presents a handful of situations where you can use bios to clean up nightmare pest scenarios without having to dip

• 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 [...] common species of fly found on livestock farms, they represent both a nuisance and a risk for disease transmission. High-density housing systems and abundant [...] buildings, they are considered a serious pest because: They can form flying swarms inside barns and hen houses, making them a particularly annoying deterrent

• Sweet pepper

  and red and even dark purple and brown. The sweet pepper is a very rich source of vitamin C and antioxidants. The level of carotene is even nine times higher [...] The sweet pepper, also referred to as bell pepper or just pepper, is part of a specific group of cultivars that belongs to the species Capsicum annuum . These [...] higher in red peppers. Red coloured peppers also contain twice as much vitamin C than green peppers.

• Prevent internal spider mite contamination

  December 13, 2022

  organization. It’s only likely to be a real challenge when the infestation is really bad. However, the following guidelines can take you a long way: Under [...] organization. One department contaminates another, an older crop contaminates a new crop, and so on. Not to worry – there are several ways to minimize the [...] the internal contamination risks. Spider mite occurs in hotspots, and it’s important to uncover its hiding places as promptly as possible. If you take the

• Tomato Disease Top 10 Topped by mildew and Botrytis

  May 30, 2019

  and Botrytis. A multipronged strategy provides the greatest chance of success. Botrytis Botrytis , known in horticulture as "gray mold", is a challenge for [...] humidity is very high. Wet wounds are also a favourite. Chemical intervention is unavoidable in the event of a serious attack. But before that happens, there [...] can dry up quickly, and use a knife to create straight wound surfaces (they dry faster than frayed wounds). There is also a whole range of products to make

• Trianum-P improves open field pepper production in Portugal

  February 8, 2024

  agricultural practices that respect the environment. 'Without a doubt, it is a product with a lot of potential for pepper cultivation,' says Pedro Militão [...] consequently, obtaining a higher final production,' explains Pedro Militão. Sociedade Agrícola Militão highly values that Trianum is a 100% natural product [...] out with the company Sociedade Agrícola Militão, in the town of Ribatejo, in a pepper crop for the processing industry. Pedro Militão is one of the two owners

• Cabbage moth

  becoming steadily darker until they are a brown-black or sometimes even a purple colour. They are ridged and have a light network of markings. First instar [...] youngest a transparent yellow to grey-green with a characteristic brown-black head capsule. After the third moult, the caterpillar is green with a dark back [...] General The cabbage moth (Mamestra brassicae) is a highly polyphagous defoliator. Besides being a major cabbage pest, it feeds on 70 plants of 22 families

• Cabbage looper

  plants. The pupae have a green colour and then change to a coffee brown colour when close to adult emergence. Finally, the adult has a mottled grayish-brown [...] upper leaves of plants. The eggs have a spherical shape, with the flattened part attached to the leaf, and are a yellowish or greenish white colour. The [...] they move in a “looping” manner. They take 15 to 20 days to pass through 5 instars, changing colour from yellowish green to pale green with a white band