biocontrol tour of ontario, canada sponsored by: new york state integrated pest management, new york...
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Biocontrol Tour of Ontario, Canada
Biocontrol Tour of Ontario, Canada
Sponsored by:New York State Integrated Pest
Management, New York Farm Viability Institute,
and New York State Flower Industries
Sponsored by:New York State Integrated Pest
Management, New York Farm Viability Institute,
and New York State Flower Industries
Gotcha
Trap crops can be used as a distribution
point for beneficial
insects, in this case the thrips
predator Amblyseius
swirskii
They're tiny but fast
Looking at A. swirskii
predatory mites at Boekestyn Greenhouse
with Ed Boekestyn
Bob Newhouse
produces his own banker plants and
infests them with bird
cherry oat aphids as a food source
for the parasitoid Aphidius colemanii
Wasps you want
These Aphidius wasps fly
throughout the greenhouse searching for
aphids to parasitize.
Hey, over here!
Yellow pots and eggplants are attractive to
whitefly. Encarsia formosa and Eretmocerus
eremicus are used to control them at
Jeffery's Greenhouses
Ask the expert
Graeme Murphy of
OMAFRA in Ontario shows
growers parasitized
whitefly pupae on eggplant leaves
Can you see it?
Minute plant bugs (Orius species) can
come in through open windows and help out with pest control
Lots of places to hide
Orchardcreek Greenhouse
uses biological control to manage
several pests in their cut
gerbera crop
An impromptu stop at the
Stokes plant trials in the
Niagara Peninsula gave us a chance to stretch out legs and minds
Mark Yadon described the
many biological
control methods used at
Mischler's Greenhouse,
a retail operation
with a wide range of crops.
Slow but steady
Slow release packets of
Amblyseius cucumeris include an
additional food source for the
predatory mites so that
the population can increase in
the greenhouse
One stop shopping
This plant has it all - cards with
Encarsia pupae, corn cob grits on the leaves used to apply spider mite
predators, a sachet at the top
left for thrips predators, and a small canister
that was used to hold another type
of whitefly parasitoid.
Research in practice
Carol Glenister
describes a research
project she is running
at Mischler's greenhouse