Content related to the topic: crops-grassland

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.

Pea midge attacks can result in serious yield losses, especially when populations build up in intensive pea-growing areas.

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

Bean seed fly larvae can damage alliums, peas, cereals, field beans, and vegetable brassicas.

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

Learn how to identify and control the two-spotted spider mite.

The potato leafhopper is a minor pest of potatoes.

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

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