• The Silent Threat to Kenya’s Avocado Industry: How Koppert is Leading the Fight Against Persea Mite (Oligonychus perseae).

  March 27, 2025

  of $175 million by 2025 (Source: USDA.gov). However, a new and devastating pest threatens to disrupt this momentum—the Persea mite ( Oligonychus perseae [...] Mite damage: The Hass variety is known to be the most susceptible to this pest, and that is not great news because Hass represents the larger percentage [...] beneficial insects : Many broad-spectrum pesticides may eliminate both harmful pests and essential pollinators, disrupting the delicate ecosystem balance. Pesticide

• Tutasan

  male tomato leaf miner moths in combination with Pherodis Tuta absoluta . Pests Tomato leaf miner moth ( Tuta absoluta ). Crops Tomato. Mode of action The

• Cucumber

  biological crop protection for your IPM strategy Biological crop protection: pest and disease control with minimal to no resistance risks Boost Soil Health

• Biological Solutions Meet Peri-urban Horticulture

  February 5, 2019

  important component of integrated pest management (IPM) programs. There are three basic strategies for biological pest control . The first, which is referred [...] Biological control involves the management of plant pests and diseases using other organisms. The concept relies on an active human management role to [...] referred to as classical, is where a natural enemy of a pest is introduced into the environment to achieve area-wide control. Inductive control on the other

• A dive into organic hop farming and biological crop protection

  hop farm. These natural enemies contribute to more balanced and targeted pest management, with a specific focus on addressing issues like the red spider

• Miglyphus

  Pests Leaf miners ( Lyriomyza spp.). Mode of action Adult female parasitic wasps of Diglyphus isaea kill second and third instar leaf miner larvae in the

• Fall Armyworm

  General The fall armyworm is a polyphagous pest that is indigenous throughout the Americas. Recently, it has been found in Africa too. The caterpillars

• Tobacco aphid

  probably evolved from the peach potato aphid in the Far East and is a key pest of tobacco crops in both the United States and South America. The tobacco

• Cotton aphid

  distributed throughout the world but prefers the warmer regions. It has been a pest in European greenhouses since the late 1980’s, particularly affecting cucumber

• Tomato russet mite

  Aculops lycopersici was detected for the first time in Australia and is a pest in tomatoes in all areas where they are grown. Other members of the plant