Encarline F (Encarsia formosa) Hanging Card of 60 Pupae x250 (15,000)
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Specifications
Weight
0.32 kg
Technical Comments
Also available as a 50:50 mix with Eretmocerus to provide improved control of whitefly on many crops.
Activity / Control
Glasshouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum) and limited control of cotton whitefly (Bemisia tabaci). Adult wasp lays 60 - 100 eggs singly into whitefly scales, which turn black as the parasite develops.
Application Method
Encarsia are introduced as pupae either on cards, which are hung within the crop, or as loose black scales.
Application Rate
Cool grown crops: 3 wasps per 1m2 until week 12 and then 1 wasp per 1m2 per week. Heated crops: 0.5 to 1 wasp per 1 m2. If whitefly are present increase rate to 5 wasps per 1 m2 for 6 weeks. Poinsettia: Preventative is 1 wasp per 3 plants per week; curative or where Bemisia tabaci (cotton whitefly) is suspected then 1 wasp per plant per week.
Bio Pest
Whitefly
About
This parasitic wasp attacks by host feeding on younger whitefly larval stages and parasitising in the third and fourth larval stage of the glasshouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum.
The adult wasp[ lays 60-100 eggs singly into whitefly scales, which turn black as the parasite develops.
Also available as a 50:50 mix with Eretmocerus to provide improved control of whitefly on many crops.