Content related to the sectors: potatoes

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

Learn how to encourage flower and pirate bugs, damsel bugs and assassin bugs.

Cutworms, the larvae of various moth species, damage many horticultural crops, as well as potatoes and sugar beet.

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

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

Learn about the biology and benefits of encouraging centipedes.

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

Learn about the life cycle and viruses transmitted by the buckthorn–potato aphid.

Leatherjackets (larvae of crane flies) damage the roots of a wide range of crops.

Learn how to identify and encourage robber flies.

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

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