Greenhouse crop protection suppliers outline new pest management tools they introduced this past year, and what’s to come in 2025.

The Entrapment line of insecticides from Attune Agriculture provides a wholly physical mode of pest control action.

The 2024 Early Order program from Envu benefits ornamental growers with business discounts on fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides.

The company’s EcoCore Division announced new developments, including three products and the hiring of Ty Ferraro as Senior Business Director.

The Vineland Research and Innovation Centre and OMAFRA look at the accurate detection of small thrips and mites through plant washing.

Recent findings from the Sainsbury Laboratory of Cambridge have found a plant drought-survival mechanism to be useful as pest control.

Broad mites can be a regular occurrence in spring crops, especially Reiger begonias and New Guinea impatiens.

Broad mites can cause extensive damage in greenhouse crops. Help your team identify the most common symptoms.

Steve Bogash, Territory Business Manager with Pro Farm Group, says it’s important to scout any plant you bring in to make sure you’re not inviting a problem.

Correct identification of mite species or life stages is critical, as many biological control agents and miticides target specific species and life stages.

Even in populations as small as one mite per leaflet, spider mites can contribute to noticeable yield loss.

Entomologists from Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands are investigating new natural enemies for the control of small mites in several crops.

Eriophyid mites affect a wide variety of plants and are known as gall, blister, bud, or rust mites based on the abnormalities they cause in their host plants.