Cottony soft rot

occurs with new dark sclerotia. The fungus also infects seeds and tubers, thereby creating a source of infection for the next crop. The dispersal to neighbouring [...] neighbouring plants is by mycelial growth. How to prevent Cottony soft rot Practice dry cultivation/be careful with irrigation Use wide plant spacing Remove [...] In the mycelium, big, dark sclerotia are formed. They can easily be seen with the naked eye and look like rat droppings. The symptoms may occur on stems

Blight of pepper

resistant to desiccation) or mycelium. Zoospores are formed from the overwintering structures which infect the host. Zoospores are spores with flagellae [...] flagellae, which enable them to move through water. Infection is usually from the root to the foot, but direct infection of the foot also occurs. Exudates leaking [...] wetness is required. Dispersal is by wind and rain causes the pathogen to be returned to the soil from infected plants. Dispersal in the soil happens via water

Red palm weevil

but has spread to Africa and Europe with distribution through the Mediterranean since the 1980s. Damage symptoms It is very difficult to recognize the first [...] (growth areas) with a low to moderate proportion of fibres. Their feeding causes deterioration of this tissue, making it easier for adult weevils to lay eggs [...] legless, pyriform with a brown head and body comprised of 13 segments. Fully grown larvae migrate to the periphery of the palms to build a solid elongated

Verticillium wilt

the gum causes the xylem vessels to get blocked, which in turn causes the plant to wilt. Spores may be wind-dispersed to new hosts. In the senescent tissue [...] dahliae has an optimum temperature around 25-27 °C. How to prevent Verticillium wilt Start with clean soil or substrate by heating it at a temperature if [...] leaves are pale-green, then orange-yellow. In the beginning the plant seems to recover at night. The symptoms may occur only in parts of the plant. Cutting

The journey of sustainable citrus farming in agriculture

Get to know Balbino Garre Martínez, a grower with over 35 years of experience in citrus and livestock farming. Balbino, along with his two brothers, operates [...] leading to the adoption of biological control methods. He has been actively controlling mealybugs with Citripar and Cryptobug , armoured scales with Aphytis [...] lifelong passion. Adapting to challenges and embracing change Balbino's agricultural journey hasn't been without obstacles. Faced with different pests, he sought

Cotton bollworm

te to reddish-brown with dark spots. In later instars the head is mottled, and the body is marked with three prominent longitudinal dark bands with numerous [...] almost spherical with a flattened base and a diameter of about 0.5 mm. They are at first a shiny yellowish white, with their colour changing to brown just before [...] aggressive and cannibalistic. Pupation occurs in the soil, with pupae of 14 to 18 mm long, with a brown, smooth body surface. Adult female cotton bollworms

Click beetles

skinned. They are up to 25 mm long and usually shiny yellowish brown or light brown with a darker head. Larval development takes 4 to 5 years. When fully [...] General Click beetles are elongate beetles with a hard exoskeleton, with the head deeply retracted into the thorax. When disturbed they lie on their back [...] yellowish brown to black. The eggs are laid in May or June in groups in the soil. They hatch about one month later and the larvae start to feed on roots

Rose aphid

symptoms Infestations with rose aphids retard the growth of buds and new shoots. Foliage and flowers are often disfigured and contaminated with sticky honeydew [...] cycle, with both winged and wingless forms of adults and a great variety in colour. In greenhouses, reproduction takes place by parthenogenesis, with unfertilized [...] viviparous females continuing to produce new generations of females. Aphids moult four times before reaching adulthood. With each moult they shed white skin

Bacterial wilt, brown rot

help the bacteria to infect the crop Do not use cut potatoes for propagation, since cutting tubers can increase disease incidence with up to 250% Quarantine [...] plants. Inside, vascular browning is common with bacterial slime oozing from the cut. When the bacteria transfers to young plants through infected tubers, the [...] Different races are distinguished with a differing, but overlapping host-range. Race 3 is pretty much restricted to potato and tomato. Whereas other races

Pherodis

lures to attract male moths, beetles , mealybugs and flies to traps. Pests Different species of moths , beetles , flies and mealybugs . Check with your [...] sex pheromone or lure, and need to be used in combination with an insect trap, the type of trap depends on the species to be monitored. The species-specific [...] fail to mate. For some pests, Pherodis dispensers contain lures which attract both sexes of the target species. Presentation Aluminium sachet with pher