• Trial_and_Field_results_nematodes_in_fruit_orchards_EN_-_Koppert.pdf

  It’s a natural, living solution with a long shelf life in the fridge,’ Michel concludes. ‘Yes, I would recommend it to anyone who has problems with codling [...] pest pressure in spring.’ ‘We don’t have that many biological solutions available for organic agriculture and Capirel nematodes helped a lot to control [...] using Capirel nematodes is that it can also be used as a preventive treatment in the autumn to reduce the pest pressure for the following spring. Easy application

• Shore fly

  causes cosmetic damage, and sometimes this can occur on such a scale that growth, particularly of young cuttings, can be retarded. Life cycle and appearance [...] transmit plant diseases and can be a nuisance to greenhouse works by their sheer numbers. Frass deposited on leaves or flowers in ornamental crops, lettuce [...] of the adult has a pair of conspicuous eyes. The wings have grey-brown patches. Although shore flies can occasionally be confused with sciarid flies ( Bradysia

• Apple scab

  parts and spore production. In autumn, the fungus produces new pseudothecia in leaves that have already fallen off the trees. In response to the infection [...] unripe fruiting bodies in infected fallen leaves or in lesions on twigs. These unripe fruiting bodies, or pseudothecia ripen in winter and form ascospores [...] infection, the plants produce cork as a defence against further growth of the fungus. In cultivars that are more resistant, this happens faster so the lesions

• False spider mites

  above, with their dorsal surface showing a net-like pattern. The eggs are a clear red colour and elliptical in shape. They are laid in a fold in the leaf [...] plant. In some crops, plants can become misshapen, presumably because the mites secrete a substance while feeding, that is poisonous to the plant. In places [...] General Mites of the family Tenuipalpidae have a worldwide distribution and can be found on many cultivated plants. Several species have been reported