Research Matters - Prolonging activity of pyrethroids
08 Apr 2011 | by Dr Ken Cockshull
Pyrethrum is an effective insecticide with low toxicity to humans, but it is rapidly destroyed by ultraviolet light.
Columnea latent viroid (CLVd) is one of nine viroids known to affect tomatoes.
Pyrethrum is an effective insecticide with low toxicity to humans, but it is rapidly destroyed by ultraviolet light.
Tuta absoluta, an increasingly important pest of tomato crops in southern Europe, is extremely damaging and currently controlled by intensive chemical pesticide applications. But such products would not be compatible with biological control agents.
The lack of an effective monitoring tool for capsids has been preventing effective control of these pests for years and has led to unnecessary use of pesticides.
Powdery mildew is a significant apple disease and extremely costly for growers to contain through pruning and routine fungicide application. Potassium bicarbonate has been used as a powdery mildew eradicant on many other crops with huge success.
This study for outdoor lettuce evaluated downy mildew fungicides.
Baby leaf crucifer crops, such as rocket grown at high densities, are particularly susceptible to downy mildew from emergence, especially the cotyledons and first true leaves.
Carnation tortrix moth and light brown moth are widespread pests of nursery stock causing damage to many species - Photinia, Chaenomoles, Daphne, Euonymus and Choisyia. They are both non-natives favoured by warm environments such as nursery stock grown under protection.
Significant damage to watercress and baby leaf Brassica crops occurred in 2006 caused by turnip sawfly (TSF).
Over the past five years, the previously successful prophylactic bio-control strategy for whitefly in tomato crops of weekly releases of parasitic wasp Encarsia formosa seems to be failing.



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