Coping with leaf spot
15 Apr 2011 | by Dove Associates
How to avoid losses from this common plant disease.
Pustules make this a relatively simple problem to identify but action must be taken to avoid damage.
How to avoid losses from this common plant disease.
Background While surveying North Warren RSPB Reserve, Suffolk, in September 2007, Heteroptera recorder Nigel Cuming found large numbers of an unfamiliar species of ground bug. Heteroptera experts Bernard Nau and Bill Dolling confirmed the identity of the bug as Nysius huttoni White ( Heteroptera:...
Background Leucinodes orbonalis (Guene ) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) is frequently intercepted by the Plant Health Service in England and Wales on imports of aubergine from Asia and Africa. Between 1999 and 2008 it was intercepted on 104 occasions, 60 of these on Solanaceae from Asia. The caterpillar...
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