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Fine spider mite webbing between the leaves of a grapevine shoot, backlit, with tiny red mites barely visible
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Red spider mites: the ones on walls and the ones on plants

If the red speck you saw was running across a wall, a windowsill or a sunny…
Two metallic green and copper Japanese beetles on a skeletonized grape leaf, with a vineyard blurred in the background
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Japanese beetle in Europe: where it has spread and what to do

The Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) is a priority quarantine pest in the European Union. It is…
Cottony mealybug colonies under a lemon tree branch, glossy citrus leaves around
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Scale insects and mealybugs: spot and remove them

Scale insects are killed at the crawler stage — the mobile juveniles — because the adult…
Adult brown marmorated stink bug on a ripening pear, hazelnut orchard in the background
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: Damage, Defence, Samurai Wasp

Three things work against the brown marmorated stink bug, and none of them works alone: exclusion…
Silk nest of oak processionary caterpillars on the trunk of an old oak, with a procession of caterpillars alongside
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Processionary caterpillars: real risk and what to do

There is one good window against processionary caterpillars: a Bacillus thuringiensis treatment on the first and…
A farmer's hands holding a small amber bottle of neem oil next to a hand sprayer, on a wooden bench in a sunlit orchard
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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…
Macro of thrips damage on a citrus leaf, with silvered tissue clearly visible
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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,…
Frutti di kiwi in fase di accrescimento sotto la pergoletta con impianto di irrigazione a goccia
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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…
Vigneto in invaiatura con sensore di flusso linfatico installato sul ceppo per gestire il deficit idrico controllato
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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,…
Cimice asiatica adulta su una pera in maturazione, frutteto sullo sfondo
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: Damage, Defence, Samurai Wasp

Three things work against the brown marmorated stink bug, and none of them works alone: exclusion…
Mele esposte al sole diretto in un meleto ad alta densità con primi segni di scottatura solare sulla buccia
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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…
Sap-flow sensor on an orchard tree trunk at dawn, used to decide the best time to water crops
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Best Time to Water Crops: Read the Plant, Not the Clock

Deciding the best time to water crops starts at the trunk: a stem-inserted sap-flow sensor reports…