Content related to the sectors: horticulture

Dance flies are predators of aphids and midges and can be encouraged in field crops.

Learn about dung flies and how to encourage them.

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

Find out how to encourage hoverflies as natural enemies of field pests.

Learn to identify and know the benefits of encouraging lacewings.

Find out about the identification, life cycle, benefits and how to encourage parasitic wasps and parasitoids.

Learn about the biology of spiders and mites and how to encourage them in field crops.

AHDB has announced today it is winding down significant activities on behalf of the horticulture and potatoes sectors.

Learn about the life cycle of the cabbage whitefly, an increasingly important pest of kale and Brussels sprout crops.

Use this database to check the impact of different active ingredients in plant protection products on beneficial insects

Sowing flowering seed mixes in field margins or other areas of farmland can support Integrated Pest Management efforts.

This page shows you how to choose and prepare farmland sites for flowering seed mixes and how to maintain them sustainably.