Content related to the topic: crops-grassland

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.

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

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.

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

Learn about the damage caused and how to minimise it, as well as weevil identification and risk factors.

Discover how to monitor for pea and bean weevils, as well as the main risk factors and control thresholds.

Understand the weevil’s life cycle, the effects of larval feeding and differences to the cabbage stem flea beetle.

Find out how to identify and monitor wireworms across a wide variety of crops.

Learn about the life cycle and identification of chafer grubs affecting potatoes and sugar beet.