IPM for Ornamental Crop Production with Alex Matthews, Technical Specialist at Fargro

CAFRE hosted a webinar with Alex Matthews, a Technical Specialist at Fargro. Alex provides advice and support to growers across the horticultural industry, aimed at achieving effective integrated pest management (IPM) strategies. Alex’s expertise is predominantly in macrobiological controls, designing biological programmes for growers and consults on integration alongside conventional and biological pesticides.

The webinar will discuss identification, lifecycle, biological and conventional controls of the following pests:

Vine weevil
Mealybug and scale
Leafminer
Sciarid
Whitefly
Spider mites
Caterpillar
Thrips
Aphids