Applying a silicon product to oilseed rape (OSR) crops could help mitigate attacks from cabbage stem flea beetle, say two ...

Flea beetle damage. It begins with a tiny “shothole,” a hole straight through a leaf as if the leaf was poked with a tiny ice ...

Flea beetle attacks on oilseed rape, which have contributed towards a dramatic decline in Yorkshire’s area planted with the ...

Here’s how to get rid of these voracious garden pests. Flea beetles are tiny pests that feed on a variety of garden plants. “Flea beetles can cause a lot of damage on edible and ornamental ...

Redheaded flea beetles have become a critical nursery pest over the past eight years. Adults cause substantial chewing damage to foliage, leading to unsalable crops. The Mid-Atlantic area sees at ...

On Sept. 17, Bayer announced that its Buteo start seed treatment has been registered for mustard in Western Canada. “The ...

agronomists claim Results from the field suggest the cabbage stem flea beetle, the main pest of the crop for UK growers, ...

"Indeed, many breeder and official trials are sown into September. "Nowadays a large percentage of oilseed rape on-farm is drilled in August or even the end of July, with the idea of getting crops up ...

And this year, I've had a lot of people comment that they've had more flea beetle damage in their home vegetable gardens, like on their eggplant, broccoli, things like that. So I think the ...

Japanese beetles are unlikely to kill healthy plants, but they cause unsightly damage. Experts advise against pheromone traps, which attract more beetles than they catch. A bucket of soapy water ...

Norwich scientists are delving into the DNA of oilseed rape crops to find ways to make them less palatable to voracious beetle pests. Dr Rachel Wells outlined the exhaustive work being ...

The reasons behind the falls were varied, it said, but included damage caused by crop pest cabbage stem flea beetle. The European Union (EU) controversially banned use of neonicotinoids – an ...