• Aphids and How to Protect Your Crop

  April 3, 2020

  biological pest control to succeed, crop monitoring is essential. Horiver and Rollertrap units ensure monitoring is efficient with regards to both time and cost [...] effects on biological controls. However, due to increased resistance to pesticides, biological control is becoming the preferred method of controlling [...] fiber 100 ml bottle, hatches up to 1,000 gallmidges 100 ml bottle, hatches up to 2,000 gall-midges 500 ml bottle, hatches up to 10,000 gall-midges Aphilin Predatory

• How to protect bumblebees in cold

  pollinating your crops < 0 °C: When it's extremely cold, all bumblebees will remain inside or around the hive to incubate the brood. It's crucial to protect [...] the brood when it gets colder. Balancing pollination activity and climate To achieve the best pollination results, it's essential to allow the majority [...] temperature needs to rise quickly to reach the minimum 24-hour temperature of 15 ºC for optimal plant development. When your crop is healthy and the average

• Spidex Vital lives up to its promises

  somewhat less keen on it. Spidex Vital still has to prove itself in such dry conditions. I want to see what happens. However, it is a new product and Koppert [...] pleased with Spidex Vital. ‘It’s a good sign if you have a predatory mite that immediately enters the crop to start searching. It makes the system more robust [...] right down to doing their job.’ A tense moment Sjaak van Dijk switched over to Spidex Vital at the start of February. ‘I have three crops a year,’ he tells

• How to protect bumblebees from heat

  rise, it is crucial to ensure effective pollination to support crop production and maintain high yields for growers. To ensure a positive result, it is crucial [...] advise growers to protect the hive from direct sunlight and to place it in a cool spot. There are various methods available for growers to do so: Right placement [...] ability to transfer pollen effectively. These challenges can lead to reduced pollination rates and lower crop yields. Bumblebees try to maintain a temperature

• How-to-Use Videos Now Available

  April 4, 2019

  used as a great tool for growers to stay up to date on any videos that help understand Koppert's products in detail. There are also great videos to understand [...] Easier Koppert Biological Systems has launched 47 new How-to-Use product videos with many more to follow. These are now available on Koppert's YouTube channel [...] com/user/KoppertBiological/videos . When there remember to subscribe to the channel in order to keep up with all the new videos coming soon. Currently,

• Tackling Thrips is Always a Puzzle

  August 18, 2021

  products. It's not yet completely clear why such large differences between companies persist. What is clear, however, is that thrips always requires a well [...] Frankliniella occidentalis damage on a gerbera flower In the top ten of infestations that lead to sleepless nights, thrips is near the top. Western flower thrips [...] thrips , in particular, occasionally drives growers to despair. Thrips is a minute, slender insect, and there are various species. These days, the western

• Trianum is a true all-rounder

  December 13, 2022

  soil-borne diseases in a targeted way but has also proven to be an effective plant growth promotor. As a result, Trianum promotes a stronger and more resilient [...] plant's roots. This is of great help to the crop, as the mycelium competes with harmful fungi for space and nutrients, giving them little to no chance of developing [...] addition, Trichoderma also acts as a mycoparasite, penetrating the pathogens' mycelium and killing it. This makes Trianum a powerful barrier against soil-borne

• Does Swirskii Really Do What it's Intended To?

  June 5, 2019

  easy to spot, you may quickly draw the conclusion that the treatment isn't effective. But don't panic: after a week, you'll likely see a clear reduction [...] If you see a few walking around on each leaf, you know you're on the right track. Supplementary Feeding for Predatory Mites If there is too little food for [...] too little for Amblyseius swirskii to eat its fill and produce enough offspring. As such, you would always have to use new predatory mites . But there's

• How do you identify a ‘thrips intruder’?

  September 19, 2021

  traps. In short, a busy, striped insect is probably setosus. If you find a slow, striped insect at the bottom of the crop, there is a good chance you have [...] however, is determining the exact identity of the intruder. Because specific knowledge and expertise is a must, only an expert can provide a definitive [...] Nevertheless, we can help you get started with a few rules of thumb. Echinothrips americanus is the easiest to identify: these thrips have black and orange

• Initial Experiences: Spidex Vital Lives Up to its Promises

  May 24, 2021

  somewhat less keen on it. Spidex Vital still has to prove itself in such dry conditions. I want to see what happens. However, it is a new product and Koppert [...] pleased with Spidex Vital . "It’s a good sign if you have a predatory mite that immediately enters the crop to start searching. It makes the system more robust [...] right down to doing their job." A tense moment Sjaak van Dijk switched over to Spidex Vital at the start of February. "I have three crops a year," he tells