Aphidius System
What is Aphidius-System?
- The biological control agent Aphidius colemani
- Most frequently used parasitic wasp to control small aphids
- Efficient against small aphid species such as the cotton aphid Aphis gossypii and the green peach aphid Myzus persicae
- Very good search behaviour that allows them to detect and parasitize incipient aphid hot spots at low prey density
- Can distinguish parasitized from non-parasitized aphids
- Develops and spreads fast in the crop
- Females lay hundreds of eggs during the first 4 days of their adult life
- The parasitic wasps detect alarm signals from an affected plant and the smell of honeydew secreted by the host. This allows them to locate aphid hot spots from a long distance
- They can parasitize up to 300 aphids
- The parasitic wasps parasitize both adults and nymphs
- Parasitized aphids change into golden brown mummies
- Parasitic wasps can cause a panic reaction, due to which the aphids fall onto the ground and die
- Ornamental crops such as chrysanthemum and gerbera
- Vegetable crops such as tomato, eggplant and pepper
- Soft fruit such as strawberry and raspberry
- Tree nursery
Available Sizes
Aphidius-System-500
Packaging: 30 ml plastic tube
Contents: 500 mummies
Carrier: buckwheat
Aphidius-System-1.000
Packaging: 100 ml plastic tube
Contents: 1.000 mummies
Carrier: buckwheat
Aphidius-System-5.000
Packaging: 500 ml plastic tube
Contents: 5.000 mummies
Carrier: buckwheat
Relevant crops
- Strawberry
- Medicinal cannabis
- Anthurium
- Tree and shrub nursery
- Tomato and Cherry tomato
- Sweet pepper and Hot pepper
- Roses
- Melon and Watermelon
- Green and Runner bean
- Gerbera
- Eggplant (aubergine)
- Cucumber and Gherkin
- Chrysanthemum
Relevant pests and diseases
Aphids