• IPM app

  outdoors and has an intuitive user interface. The Dashboard gives the grower insight into pest issues in almost real-time once uploaded from the field. Koppert [...] management has always been a great challenge in agriculture. A healthy crop is paramount, while there is also a growing demand for sustainable food production [...] growers with their in-depth integrated pest management program. Koppert iPM consists of two components, a Scout App and an online Dashboard. The Scout App works

• Ulti-Mite: Revolutionizing biocontrol with innovative predatory mite sachets

  systems. Since 2016, the Ulti-Mite version of Amblyseius swirskii has been on the market. Nowadays the Ulti-Mite sachet is also available for our predatory [...] prospects The water-resistant foil used for Ulti-Mite opens up new possibilities in outdoor crop protection , such as citrus cultivation. The innovative [...] significant advancement in the packaging of predatory mites , designed to enhance biological pest control across a wide range of crops. In 2016, we introduced

• Two-spotted spider mite

  yellow or brown.The colour of the adults often depends on the crop in which they occur (e.g. on cucumbers they are often yellow-brown, on tomatoes they are [...] feeding on plant sap. They mainly occur on the underside of leaves where they pierce the cells and suck out the contents. The empty dead cells become yellow [...] yellow, and in many plants the damage can also be seen on the upper surface of leaves as small yellow dots. The destruction of cells results in reduced ph

• Shallot aphid

  antennae are pale, apart from the ends of the antennae and the tarsi. The siphunculi are short an swollen towards the apex. The shallot aphid does not alternate [...] overwintering and there is no sexual stage in the life cycle. No eggs are produced. Myzus ascalonicus is cold hardy and overwinters in sheltered places [...] and many ornamentals . The shallot aphid is cosmopolitan and widely spread in Europe. Damage symptoms Feeding of shallot aphid on strawberries invokes a

• May beetle

  ending in the death of the plant. From the third stage onwards, the impact of this pest increases. Damage symptoms Initial damage is not visible in the aerial [...] with the deposition of eggs in the ground, close to plant roots. The larvae eat throughout the summer and migrate deep into the soil in autumn. In cold [...] but remain in the soil until the temperature is high enough to emerge. Finally, when the rains arrive, the adults are encouraged to emerge in order to copulate

• Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

  ultimately killing the host within a few days. The nematodes then feed and reproduce within the cadaver of the dead host, resulting in the emergence of a new [...] nematodes enter the pest's body through natural openings. Once inside the pest, the nematodes release symbiotic bacteria, typically of the genus Photorhabdus [...] use them in direct sunlight The moisture content of the soil must be kept high for several days after application. When possible, irrigate the crop before

• Rice root aphid

  feeds on the roots of the host plant. The winged form is about 1.8 mm long, darker than the wingless form, with a brown-black head. Aphids in the winged [...] deposited on the plant by aphids promotes the growth of mould and fungus. Transmission of viral disease between plants. Life cycle and appearance of the Rice [...] Rice root aphid Like most aphids , the rice root aphid appears in both winged and wingless forms. The wingless form is dark olive-green, with a round body

• Lesser house fly

  other microorganisms in the surrounding decaying matter. They can tolerate a wide range of moisture levels and are adapted to stay near the surface of near-liquid [...] General The genus Fannia comprises almost 300 different species of fly, including the lesser house fly , the latrine fly and a whole host of other man [...] Fannia species can be found worldwide, from the arctic to the temperate neotropics, and they typically reproduce in feces, compost and carrion. These flies

• Chafers

  General The chafers are beetles of the Scarabaeidae family. The larvae of both species live in the soil and feed on the roots of many plants. They are [...] Amphimallon majalis is somewhat smaller; about 13-15 mm long and reddish-brown in colour. The adult beetles fly in the evening, generally in June and July and [...] and land on trees to mate. During the night the females move to the ground to lay their eggs. Eggs are shiny and white. The eggs hatch after about four

• Municipality Enschede: Entonem nematodes against oak processionary caterpillar

  The Municipality of Enschede started using nematodes for the first time in the spring of 2021 to try to halt the spread of the oak processionary caterpillar [...] caterpillar. The municipality’s built-up area has a total of 22,000 oak trees. In the past, the municipality only extracted the nests. But as Petra Klein Breukink [...] She is the project manager of the oak processionary caterpillar for the Municipality of Enschede. ‘We use Koppert’s nematode product Entonem in locations