Key Points Caterpillars, slugs, chewing insects, wildlife, and fungi are the top culprits behind holes in outdoor plant ...

UK farmers are being urged to cash in on global demand for linseed, as new record-breaking £600 per tonne winter linseed ...

Cabbage stem flea beetle pressure is at its lowest level in six years, with well over half of UK oilseed rape growers ...

The further we get into the summer, the warmer temperatures will become, and the higher the risk of pests and diseases among ...

A new set of cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) management strategies has been launched in a major effort to restore the ...

The strongest set of cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) management strategies to date has been released to help reverse the fortunes of oilseed rape (OSR). The top ten list of strategies to tackle the ...

They are a pest of cabbage-family vegetables ... In May and June, eggs are laid around host plants. Large striped flea-beetle larvae crawl up into the stems and tunnel into the leaves, creating 'mines ...

Results from the field suggest the cabbage stem flea beetle, the main pest of the crop for UK growers, could be effectively barred from the plant by introducing a silicon layer within the leaf ...

East Anglian farms are part of a new research project to monitor beetle pests which can devastate oilseed rape crops. The destructive feeding of the cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) and its ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Tackling Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle is critical for arable farmers to grow a successful oilseed rape crop according to AHDB. Earlier this month, ...

With no single chemical or cultural approach that reliably manages cabbage stem flea beetle numbers, control requires a combination of techniques to suppress populations of the pest. But with ...

Maintaining experimental cultures of aphids and cabbage stem flea beetles in our insectary. Testing synthetic aggregation pheromones of cabbage stem flea beetles in the field to determine the ...