
Sweet corn
The European corn borer is economically the main pest in the German corn growing. The sweet corn is particularly attractive ...
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The European corn borer – a danger for the corn
The European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) is economically the main pest in the European corn growing. Without direct control it ...
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The control of the European corn borer from the air
In order to make the biological control also attractive for big companies, we already started in the late 1990s to ...
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Greenhouse
If in tomato crops the whitefly is controlled by the parasitic wasp Encarsia formosa and besides pests like the silver ...
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Tropical greenhouse
Lepidopteran pests in vegetable cultivation have already been controlled for decades with Trichogramma parasitic wasps. These lepidopteran pests are also ...
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Trichogramma parasitic wasps
The use of Trichogramma is one of the oldest biological control methods in Europe. Already in the early 1970s, egg ...
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Monitoring, important for the successful control
The first important step for a successful control of moths in greenhouse growing is the so called „monitoring“, the catching ...
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Warehouse
Pests that damage stocks like the grain weevil cause worldwide damage running into billions. A control reduces losses of valuable ...
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The control of food moths in the warehouse
Moths that damage stocks (Indian meal moths, Mediterranean flour moths or angoumois grain moths) are widely spread pests in food ...
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Biological control of moth larvae
The braconid wasp Bracon hebetor, also called Habrobracon hebetor, is one of the best studied parasitic wasps in the storage ...
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