Content related to the sectors: cereals-oilseeds

Learn about minor flea beetles, including the Wessex, striped, turnip, adult beet and flax flea beetles.

Ladybirds commonly eat aphids and scale insects and are important for biocontrol.

Various Hymenoptera species are important as natural enemies of field pests.

Find out how to identify and control weevils to prevent direct and indirect yield losses.

Learn about the symptoms caused by the cereal cyst nematode.

Learn about the diversity of gall midges and how some can be used as natural enemies.

Gout fly is present across the UK and an occasional minor pest of wheat, barley and triticale.

Field thrips affect peas, field beans and sugar beet and require close monitoring to identify attacks.

Learn how to identify and control minor pests, including the cereal ground beetle, cereal leaf beetle and wheat shoot beetle.

Learn about the biology and benefits of encouraging centipedes.

Balloon and dagger flies can predate many field pests, including aphids and thrips.

The silver Y moth can affect diverse crops, including oilseeds, carrots, peas, field beans, sugar beet, lettuce and vegetable brassicas.