Brimex BioBest - Orius System (Predatory Bug against Thrips)
With the Brimex Orius System Predatory bugs against thrips, you have the most voracious controllers among biological thrips controllers.
How do you recognize thrips?
The adult thrips is a grayish yellow, brown insect of about 1 mm in size. Thrips is mainly found in the upper parts of plants, think of the flowers or fruits of your crop. In these areas the thripses also lay their eggs, after about four days orange-colored larvae appear. These larvae can also cause serious damage.
Thrips feed on plant tissue, they puncture the plant cells and suck them dry. Typical are the silver-gray spots on the leaves on which black dots, the droppings of thrips, can be seen. In a severe outbreak of thrips, the leaves can even dry out completely, thrips can also transmit viruses that make plants sick and wilt.
What are Brimex Orius System Predatory Bugs?
- Predatory oval bug against thrips
- Adults are brown-black with gray-white spots and prominent red eyes
- Larvae are yellow-orange with orange-brown spots
- For 20 years the most successful biological control of thrips throughout Europe
What are the benefits of predatory bugs?
- An adult predatory bug eats all the motile stages of thrips
- Also eats aphids, spider mites, whitefly and eggs of moths
- The nymphs mainly consume thrips larvae
- Adults and nymphs can survive on pollen
- Also controls adult thrips
- Applicable in many crops
- Preventive use in crops containing pollen
- Can be used curatively in hot spots
- Kills more thrips than necessary to feed itself
- Combinable with other thrips pesticides
How effective are these beneficials?
- One nymph easily eats 50 thrips larvae
- An adult female kills up to 20 thrips nymphs
In what crops can the Orius System be used?
- Small fruit
- Vegetables
- Tree nursery
