New products

Acti·Vera, and I was previously known as Product X. Acti·Vera is the newest Biobizz product and it?s main ingredient is the plant of aloe vera. Acti·Vera is an organic botanical activator that protects the immune system, increases metabolism and enhances nutrient absorbtion.

The beginning It all started in 2011, during a trip to Curacao, the most popular Caribbean holiday destination. Due to the island?s particular climate, it is not an easy place for the plants to grow but aloe vera is one of the few exceptions as it´s able to grow strong and keep its beauty.

From Plants 2 Plants
Healthy, fresh, clean, anti-bacterial, cleansing, detox, beauty and care come to mind thinking of aloe vera. So we thought: if it does wonders on the skin, why not trying it out with plants? After throughout research trying out any possible combination of ingredients that could work together with the plant extract of the aloe vera, the final product was finally designed and ready to be launched: Acti·Vera.

The most important difference to other Biobizz products and why Acti·Vera is new in the market is that it?s "out of a plant, for a plant". So basically: plants for plants. There are Biobizz products derived from ground, sea and now also from plant material!

Why Acti·Vera?
Out of a plant, for a plant and pretty from the inside & outside. Acti·Vera works from the inside. It makes the inside stronger and works magic on the outside at the same time. And a pretty plant, in this case, also means a healthy plant: you are what you eat. Why use Acti·Vera on your plants?

- Protects/activates the immune system
- Germination powers
- Increases plant metabolism and enhances nutrient absorption
- Breakdown of sugars
- 100% Vegan

How to use?
- Use 5ml per liter water, use with every watering
- Usable for food crops, plantations, perennials, ornamental plants
- Usable in the vegetative and flowering phase to stimulate growing and blooming
- Usable indoors and outdoors
- Usable as foliar spray

P.persimilis: predatory mite against kasspintmijt

Product: 100 ml bottle with 2,000 adult mites on wood chips.

Shelf life: Up to 1 day at 8-10 ° C.

Application: used in greenhouses and indoor plantings against kasspintmijt (Tetranychus urticae). Consider repeated introductions. The product is sensitive to various chemical pesticides. Ask for advice deployment strategy.

Appearance: adult mites are pear-shaped, shiny and bright red in color with four pairs of legs. Young stages are transparent to light and have three pairs of legs. The eggs are oval, pale pink, shiny and translucent. All stages can (except the eggs) are moving quickly on the leaf.

Operation: eat all stages of kasspintmijt. The carmine spider mite (Tetranychus cinnabarinus) is eaten much lesser extent. The quantity of mites that is eaten, is dependent on density of the red spider mite, relative humidity and temperature. P.persimilis is mainly used in spider mite. In the absence of the spider mites eat each other. At 20 ° C kills a predatory mite five adult spider mites or twenty young larvae and eggs and the development of the predatory mite is at this temperature twice as fast as the development of spider mites.

Climate: humidity must be at least 75%. Here the Koppert strain is clearly different from the Entocare strain (TETRIX), the humidity must be at least 40%. The temperature must come regularly above 20 ° C. At a temperature above 30 ° C is Phytoseiulus persimilis less effective.

Amblyseius swirskii: predatory mite against thrips and whitefly

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SWIRSKI-MITE PLUS: bags of 250 predatory mites (nymphs and adults) with flour mites as food in bran.

Application: is used against various thrips species and whiteflies in greenhouses and indoor plants. Consider repeated introductions. The product is sensitive to various chemical pesticides. Ask for advice deployment strategy.

Shelf life: up to 1-2 days at 10-15 ° C in the dark with adequate ventilation (i.v.m. CO2 accumulation).

Appearance: Mobile stages are beige-pink, droplet shaped and have pushed down 'position on short legs. The eggs are oval and transparant white All stages can be especially visible in the corner of main vein and lateral veins and in the flowers. Amblyseius swirskii is indistinguishable in the field of Neoseiulus cucumeris and Neoseiulus californicus

Operation: adult predatory mites suck young thrips larvae and eggs and larvae of whitefly empty. Amblyseius swirskii can also pollen of peppers and eggplant build a population. Preventive introduction on pollen can take place in early bloom.

Climate does not go into diapause and can therefore be used all year. Amblyseius swirskii can develop well in the crop when the daytime temperature regularly exceeds 20-22 ° C and is resistant to high temperatures.

THRIPEX
Neoseiulus cucumeris: predatory mite against thrips
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THRIPEX-PLUS: paper bags with hook containing 1,000 predatory mites (all stages) mixed with bran with a lot of grain mites as food.

Shelf life: 2 days at 10-15 ° C lying in the dark.

Application: used in greenhouses and indoor landscaping thrips, but also kasspintmijt (Tetranychus), broad mite (Polyphagotarsonemus latus), cyclamen mite (Tarsonemus pallidus), citrus mite (Panonychus citri) and Brevipalpus be eaten. Consider repeated introductions. The product is sensitive to various chemical pesticides. Ask for advice deployment strategy.

Appearance: adult mites are about 0.4 mm long, beige-pink and have short legs. Their body is pear-shaped and somewhat flattened. They are difficult to see in the crop. The nymphs are pale brown in color. Nymphs and adults are very mobile. The eggs are translucent white.

Operation: predatory mites pierce their prey and suck it dry. Besides thrips eat Neoseiulus cucumeris also pollen and mites, spider mites, among others. This is important because this is the predatory mites allows to maintain themselves in the absence of trip larvae on plants in the greenhouse and also to multiply. Neoseiulus cucumeris can be used preventively.

Climate with a humidity below 60% dry up all the eggs. The temperature must come regularly above 20 ° C and must not exceed 35 ° C. The minimum growth temperature is 8 ° C. Neoseiulus cucumeris does not go into hibernation and can also be used in short day.

Orius laevigatus: predatory bug against thrips.

Product: bottle of 100 ml adults and nymphs boekweitdopppen and some vermiculite.

Shelf life: up to 2 days at 10-15 ° C lying in the dark.

Application: used in greenhouses and indoor landscaping thrips. Consider repeated introductions. The product is sensitive to various chemical pesticides. Ask for advice deployment strategy.

Appearance: adult predatory bugs are about 2 mm long and brown to black in color with lighter patches on the wings. Males and females are similar to each other. When just nymphs hatch, they are almost colorless but soon yellow to orange or brown. Almost all nymphal stages have red eyes.

Operation: all stages of Orius can kill thrips. These are punctured and drained. At high densities is slain more prey than if food is needed. A female Orius eat under optimal conditions around 12 thrips per day.

Climate: The optimal temperature for Orius is between 20-30 ° C. At a constant temperature of 11 ° C takes place no more development. A slightly higher humidity (60%) is desired.

Delphastus catalinae: predatory beetle against white fly

Product: cartridge with 1,000 adult beetles in buckwheat hulls.

Shelf life: 1-2 days at 12-14 ° C in the dark (horizontal shaft).

Application: used in greenhouses and indoor plants. Consider repeated introductions. The product is sensitive to various chemical pesticides. Ask for advice deployment strategy.

Appearance: adults are 1.5mm long and black. Females have a brown head. Larvae are gray-white color.

Operation: adults and larvae bite large numbers of whiteflies open and suck them empty. If an egg, larva or pop by the predatory beetle was evacuated, that remains on the skin. The typical yellow excrement are a good indication of feeding activity. The beetles have sufficient whitefly eggs needed for reproduction. The beetles can keep a good death by withdrawing legs and head.

Climate: minimum temperature 20 ° C, optimally at 22-30 ° C.

Steinernema carpocapsae: insectenparasitair against nematode worms and several other insect larvae.

Product: 2 bags in a box of 25 million larvae (3rd stage) per bag in inert carrier material.

Shelf life: see package for expiry date, stored at 2-6 ° C in the dark.

Application: in greenhouses and indoor plantings used against caterpillars of the family Noctuidae (night owls) and Pyralidae (among others Duponchelia fovealis), larvae of Tipulidae (crane flies) and larvae of the great pine beetle (Hylobius abietis). Also active against larvae of various pests from the order of Coleoptera (beetles), and Orthoptera (e.g., cricket). Consider repeated introductions. The product is sensitive to various chemical pesticides. Ask for advice deployment strategy.

Appearance: 3rd larval stage is 0.5-0.6 mm long. Other stages develop inside the host.

Operation: actively search for their prey and penetrate them. The nematodes feed on the contents of the prey, with specific bacteria come from the intestinal tract of the nematode. These bacteria convert host tissue into products which can easily be taken up by the nematodes. The affected larvae die within a few days.

Climate: the moisture content of the soil must be high and the soil temperature between 14-33 ° C. Nematodes are sensitive to ultraviolet light (UV) so do not use in direct sunlight. Spraying leaves only at night to perform minimal influence of UV light and maximum moisture availability for the nematodes.

Aphidoletes aphidimyza: gall midge against greenfly

Product: bottle of 100 ml with dolls in vermiculite that come 2000 gall midges.

Shelf life: up to 2 days at 8-10 ° C, in the dark.

Application: for the control of many species of aphids in greenhouses and indoor plants. Consider repeated introductions. The product is sensitive to various chemical pesticides. Ask for advice deployment strategy.

Appearance: adult gall midges are delicate insects about 2.5 mm long with long, thin legs. The female has a wing length of 2.5-3.5 mm. The male antennae are long and covered with hair. In females, the antennas are shorter. Eggs are small and shiny orange, but difficult to observe. The larvae are 0.3-3 mm long and orange. Pupation takes place in the ground. A aphid killed by galmuglarve associated with its snout to the magazine and later turns brown or black and decay.

Operation: the larva of the gall midge injects a poison in the aphid, which the aphid is paralyzed and drained can be. If there are many aphids are present, the galmuglarve kills more than he eats aphids. Adult gall midges eat aphids, but lay eggs near aphid colony. They are active at night. Honeydew, produced by the aphids, promotes the egg laying of the gall midge.

Climate: turn off most of the eggs as the night temperature is above 16 ° C and the humidity is high.