Biocontrols For Your Pepper Crop
The most common pests that affect greenhouse bell pepper crops are thrips and aphids but also spider mites, broad mites (begonia mites), Loopers/Catepillars and whitefly can also establish well. The use of BCA’s is an excellent resistance management tool and can be used very successfully right from the start. BCA’s are excellent in preventing pest populations from getting established when they are released early in the crop cycle, ideally already during propagation.
Pest Name
Scientific Name
Suitable Products
Thrips: Western Flower Thrips, Chili Thrips and other species
Frankliniella
occidentalis and Scirtothrips
dorsalis
Aphids (small spp), Green Peach,
Black Melon, Tobacco Aphid
Aphis gossypii, Myzus persicae, Myzus
nicotianae
.
Whitefly, Sweet Potato or Greenhouse
Trialeurodes vaporariorum and or
Bemisia tabaci
Fungus gnats & Shore flies in pepper
crops grown in organic or soil media
Bradysia spp. &
Scatella spp.
.
