Predatory mite against spider mites Spidex 2000ST

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.