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There’s no deader than dead
Here’s how you can do your own bioassay – just a fancy word for test spray – in just a few minutes.
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There is more than one way to kill pests
You grow what people and pests want to eat.
You get more money from people if the pests don’t eat as much ... or they spoil the look and presentation of the produce.
It’s a war!
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Nosy weevils come by the dozen – and more
Ion Staunton is an entomologist at Pestech.com.au, manufacturers of PyBo Natural Pyrethrum Insecticidal Concentrate. Ask your Ag supplier or talk to a human: 1800 12345 7
Weevils are a family of beetles, easy to identify – just check out the drawings.
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Time to listen for caterpillars
For your next crop inspection, winkle the wax out of your ears and you hardly need to look.
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Is there any simplifying IPM?
Simplifying IPM.
But it’s not that simple … the ‘I’ in IPM stands for integrated which means stuffing whatever will manage pests into the process.
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A taste of heaven
Many pests can skim through a life cycle in little more than a week and if a mum-pest can produce 50–100 progeny in another week and if, like mites, which we covered last issue, two thirds of those are female, you’ll need a calculator on steroids to work out the percentage increase in population per generation.
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Mighty mites
Mites which specialise in eating plants have modified abrading and sucking mouthparts differing from those with chewing/mandibular mouthparts for mites that eat grain, books, straw, birds, people (as in scabies).
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Beetles to beat
Beetles which eat your avocado, macadamia and mango flowers are eating your cash.
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Queensland’s gift to fruit growers
Other states and territories would love to return to sender, but the QFF doesn’t cooperate.
The Queensland Fruit Fly is so well known, the abbreviation is widely recognised as representing a threat to the wealth of growers of most fruits almost anywhere (in reality it is a native of central coastal Queensland, but very geographically ambitious).
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Longtailed mealybug monitoring update
Technical agronomist and InSense owner Russell Fox says the longtailed mealybug LTMB (Pseudococcus longispinus) is proving to be not just a very persistent pest – it is also a pest on the increase in many areas and crops.
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Soon there will be bugs
As the temperatures rise, so do the pests! Learn how to protect your crops from Fruit Spotting and Banana Spotting Bugs before they wreak havoc.
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It’s an inside job
You have hidden enemies: the pests that work away inside plant tissue.
These pests are not shy; they just choose to get inside because they can, the tucker is good… and because they have less trouble with predators (and growers).
Ion Staunton*
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You don't want Lace (bug) in your place
I see olive trees used as features or ornamental foliage in towns around restaurants; some homeowners like them as they are hardy, have a grey-green foliage, a variation on other foliage colours.
By this time of the year many have yellowed leaves among the grey-green – an olive lace bug (OLB) symptom.
Citrus
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Citrus flavoured pests
Congratulations! If you’ve chosen to grow a citrus crop, you’ve picked a tree crop with probably the most pests wanting to share in the fun.
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Insect control strategies for this season
In the September Rural Business magazine, there was an important announcement: “…the fact is, without pesticides, 78 per cent of fruit, 54 per cent of vegetables and 32 per cent of cereals currently produced for consumption would not exist”.
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