Biocontrols For Your Cucumber Crop
The most common pests that affect greenhouse cucumber crops are thrips, two spotted spidermites, whiteflies and black melon aphids. Other pest problems that occur are Loopers/Catepillars, lygus and cucumber beetles. BCA’s are excellent in preventing pest populations from getting established when they are released early in the crop cycle, ideally during propagation.
Pest Name
Scientific Name
Suitable Products
Thrips: Western Flower Thrips, Chili Thrips and other species
Frankliniella
occidentalis and Scirtothrips
dorsalis
Whitefly, Sweet
Potato or
Greenhouse
Trialeurodes
vaporariorum and or
Bemisia tabaci
Fungus gnats & Shore flies in cucumber
crops grown in organic or soil media
Bradysia spp &
Scatella spp.
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