Orius-System
Successfully controlling thrips
What is Orius-System?- The voracious, oval predatory bug Orius laevigatus to control thrips
- Adults are brownish black with grey-white spots and have conspicuously red eyes
- The larvae are yellowish orange with orange-brown spots
- Has been successfully controlling thrips in Europe for twenty years
- Adult predatory bugs eat all mobile thrips stages
- Also eats aphids, whitefly and moth eggs
- The nymphs mainly devour thrips larvae
- Adults and nymphs can survive on pollen
- A nymph easily devours 50 thrips larvae
- An adult female kills up to 20 thrips nymphs
- Soft fruit such as strawberry
- Vegetable crops such as sweet pepper and eggplant
- Tree nursery
Units
Orius-System-500
Packaging: 125 ml plastic bottle
Contents: 500 bugs
Carrier: buckwheat with vermiculite
Orius-System-2.000
Packaging: 250 ml plastic bottle
Contents: 2.000 bugs
Carrier: buckwheat with vermiculite
Relevant crops
- Strawberry
- Medicinal cannabis
- Tree and shrub nursery
- Sweet pepper and Hot pepper
- Poinsettia
- Melon and Watermelon
- Green and Runner bean
- Grapes
- Eggplant (aubergine)
- Chrysanthemum
Relevant pests and diseases
ThripsFiles
Downloads
Technical Sheet"