Description
Target pests
- Fungus gnats
- Shore flies
- Thrips
Advantages
- A robust predatory mite that provides long term control
- Survives at low-prey density
- Suitable for preventative releases
Suitable crop environments
- Hypoaspis are well suited to greenhouse and nursery environments.
- They can also be used in field crops.
- They establish well in a variety of growing media (including soil, potting mixes, perlite, coconut coir and rock wool), provided it is suitably porous and well drained to avoid waterlogging.
- Hypoaspis are active at temperatures as low as 10 °C, however they perform best at 20-30 °C.
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