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Topic: earwigs

Published - 20 September 2021
By Marcel Veens (Marcel Veens Horticulture Adviser Pty Ltd)
Do insecticides make mealybugs worse?

Control of mealybugs is notoriously difficult because their waxy secretions reduce penetration by insecticides. In apples and pears, mealybugs also hide in the calyx end …
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earwigs, mealy bug, Mealybug

Beneficials, Pests

Published - 18 March 2021
By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria)
Earwig control of WAA

Orchardist Ian Cathels participated in an APAL Future Orchard monitoring trial looking at earwig control of woolly apple aphid (WAA).
“We observed earwigs numbers were very …
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earwigs, woolly aphid, woolly apple aphid

Beneficials

Published - 12 April 2020
By Kevin Dodds (NSW DPI)
Woolly Aphid on the move

Woolly Apple Aphid are on the move!
Here’s an interesting observation from Batlow this week. I established earwig shelters (made from corrugated cardboard) in several blocks …
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Aphelinus Mali, earwigs, woolly aphid, woolly aphid parasitoid

Beneficials

Published - 20 February 2020
By Dr Stephen Quarrell (University of Tasmania)
Earwigs: ugly critters we should learn to love

Earwigs, everyone knows them, but most people hate them. That said, they are probably one of the best predators in your orchard!
Why are they so …
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beneficial predators, codling moth, earwigs, LBAM, wooly aphid

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