plant tissue. The eggs are laid in leaves, flower petals and in the soft parts of stalks. On the leaves of sweet pepper, for instance, these…
beginning the plant seems to recover at night. The symptoms may occur only in parts of the plant. Cutting the stalk horizontally reveals a slight…
thrips (Thrips tabaci) are laid in leaves, flower petals and in the soft parts of stalks. They are inserted into the plant tissue with a saw-like…
suffused with ash-grey and a large, metallic, bronzy black ocellus on the hind part. The hindwings are brown. The eggs are about 1.3 x 1.0 mm, and…
development takes place in the fruit. The larvae pupate either fully or partly in the fruit, or outside the fruit on the ground. Damage symptoms After
asexual conidia are released and repeat the cycle of infection of new plant parts and spore production. In autumn, the fungus produces new…
zoospores produced in the sporangia. For germination on above-ground plant parts, leaf wetness is required. Dispersal is by wind and rain causes the…
Agrotis segetum . The larvae of these moths usually feed on roots and plant parts close to the ground, thereby often cutting the stems of young…
them to dry out and die. Damage on a box-tree most often starts in the lower part, where the oldest leaves, which contain high concentrations of toxic…
silver-Y moth ( Autographa gamma ) is a migrant moth that appears in northern parts of Europe until November, migrating back to southern Europe for…
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