• Grape mealy bug

  January 1, 1970

  mating with males. Mealy bug completes its life cycle in 30 days. Ants are get attracted to honey dew secreted by mealy bug and helps in spreading of mealy

• Crazy roots, hairy roots, crown gall

  January 1, 1970

  vegetables, the roots overgrow the substrate and in severe epidemics the drippers get clogged. In tomato, excessive vegetative growth occurs. Life cycle and appearance

• Click beetles

  January 1, 1970

  head deeply retracted into the thorax. When disturbed they lie on their back feigning death and then suddenly propel themselves into the air with a audible [...] many plants. Damage symptoms The click beetles feed on the roots and bore into the base of plants. This can cause the plants to wilt and die. Damage is

• Knowing & recognizing

  January 1, 1970

  Get the growers’ guide to biological crop protection Knowing and recognizing does exactly what it implies. It empowers you with knowledge about the pest’s

• Cotton

  January 1, 1970

  is soft and fluffy and is the source of the fibre which is spun into thread and woven into cloth worldwide. Cotton plants belong to the genus Gossypium and

• Black root rot of cucurbits

  January 1, 1970

  evaporation, wilting may occur sooner. In wilted plants, the crown first gets a water-soaked appearance, turning light-brown and sunken, later black with

• Bacterial spot

  January 1, 1970

  fruits, first small black specks are seen on green fruits. The specks grow into brown spots that look like scab. These spots may be surrounded by a halo [...] surface. They occur on the abaxial (underside of) leaf surfaces and may enlarge into dark brown lesions with a light brown centre. As with powdery mildew infection

• Root rot of carrot

  January 1, 1970

  spots over the entire surface of the carrot. These spots gradually change into larger dark brown to black lesions of various shapes. The lesions can merge [...] but under a magnifying glass it appears that the infected area radiates into the healthy tissue. The spots can increase in number and size until they [...] Conidia on leaflets produced a germ tube, an appressorium and an infection peg into an epidermal cell, and then intracellular and intercellular mycelium. Conidia

• Two-spotted spider mite

  January 1, 1970

  loss of the crop. The nymphs and adults also produce webs, and plants can get completely covered with such webs in which the mites live. The webbing and

• Ervipar

  January 1, 1970

  and females lay their eggs into aphids . The next generation of parasitic wasps develop inside the aphid, which converts into a leathery mummy. The adult [...] days after the first introduction. Visual effect Parasitized aphids turn into a brown mummy. Pack size 250; 500; 5,000 mummies. Presentation 100 ml bottle;