News 30/09/2026 Scale insects and mealybugs: spot and remove them Scale insects are killed at the crawler stage — the mobile juveniles — because the adult…
News 23/09/2026 Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: Damage, Defence, Samurai Wasp Three things work against the brown marmorated stink bug, and none of them works alone: exclusion…
News 16/09/2026 Processionary caterpillars: real risk and what to do There is one good window against processionary caterpillars: a Bacillus thuringiensis treatment on the first and…
News 09/09/2026 Neem oil: what it does and when you can use it Neem oil works on aphids, scale insects, whitefly, thrips and spider mite, and it works in…
News 02/09/2026 Thrips: how to spot them and stop them properly You recognise thrips by the damage before you see the insect: silvering of the leaf tissue,…
News 26/08/2026 Kiwifruit: the Weeks That Decide Fruit Size, and Why Saving Water Then Is a Bad Trade During cell expansion, kiwifruit size is built with water. A deficit here is never recovered. In…
News 19/08/2026 Regulated Deficit Irrigation in the Vineyard: How Thirsty to Let the Vine Get Between Veraison and Harvest After veraison, water stress becomes an oenological instrument. But only if you can measure it daily,…
News 05/08/2026 Sunburn on Apples: Why the Thermometer Tells You Less Than the Tree Does Damage starts when the skin passes 46-49 °C. Air temperature does not tell you that. The…
