Soybean

soybeans are Argentina, Brazil and the United States. Soybeans are now an important global crop can be used as food crop, but also provide oil and are a major

Tea mosquito bug

capable of laying about 500 eggs. The eggs are laid in all tender parts of the plant. The freshly hatched nymphs are look like spidery in general appearance [...] and tea. Damage symptoms Helopeltis is a sucking pest. Nymphs and adults are damaging stages which suck the sap from young leaves, tender stems and buds

Amazone Plants continues the path of organic cultivation

that only become noticeable once the plants are in the hall. Fantastic results with Swirski-LD The main pests are the Western flower thrips , aphids (predominantly [...] explains, ‘Koppert is involved in a trial in which we are investigating whether Chrysopa eggs are effective at tackling the two thrips varieties. Hopefully [...] available plants are primarily dispatched via exporters to garden centres, florists, and retailers in Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe. ‘These are the more

Citrus

originates from these warmer climates they are not frost hardy. Temperatures not falling below −2 °C (28 °F) are required for successful cultivation. Theses [...] cultivated for fruit or grown as an ornamental. It is believed that citrus plants are native to subtropical and tropical regions of Asia and the Malay Archipelago

Coffee

Coffea spp. Coffee About Coffee beans are the source of one of the most popular beverages in the world. They are in fact, not actual beans, but the seeds [...] seeds of Coffea , a genus of flowering plants whose seeds are known worldwide as coffee beans. It is a member of the Rubiaceae family and grows on shrubs

Onion thrips

eggs of the onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) are laid in leaves, flower petals and in the soft parts of stalks. They are inserted into the plant tissue with a [...] a saw-like ovipositor. Larvae are light to yellowish green in colour, with a large head and bright red eyes. The colour of the adult depends on the food [...] prepupa, the pupa has longer, more developed wing buds and longer antennae that are curved back over the head. The prepupal and pupal instars do not feed and

Two-spotted spider mite

Despite their small size, they are capable of very rapidly doing severe damage, due to their great reproductive capacity. There are more than 1200 species worldwide [...] worldwide and many of them are major crop pests. The two-spotted spider mite ( Tetranychus urticae ) is by far the most important species in greenhouses [...] and a resting period of roughly equal duration can be distinguished. Eggs are usually found on the underside of leaves. They have an oval body that is rounded

Beet armyworm

is active only at night. The forewings are grey-brown suffused with a dark brown or black. The head and thorax are brown and the abdomen grey-brown. The [...] leaf, sometimes stripping the leaf down to the mid-rib. Flowers and buds are also attacked. This large-scale damage has considerable consequences for the [...] the moth’s body. The eggs, usually grey but sometimes greenish or pinkish, are laid at night, preferably low in the crop on the underside of leaves, in groups

Pomegranate wilt complex

species of Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Sclerotium, Macrophomina, Phytophthora are occasionally associated with fungi. Symptoms Affected plants show yellowing

Pomegranate bacterial blight

Splitting of fruits under severe infection. Disease cycle Infected cuttings are the main source of inoculum and wind splashed rains plays important role is