Common Winter Pests on Crops: Tips to Keep Them Away
Winter pests can severely damage your crop's yield and quality. Here are the common winter pests and learn how to protect your crops from them
Regularly monitor the plants and to control the aphids, introduce natural predators like ladybugs and use insecticidal soap or neem oil
Aphids
To prevent damage of cutworms, use Bt soil treatments and put collars around the seedlings
Cutworms
To keep slugs and snails away, use iron phosphate baits and install barriers such as beer traps or copper tape
Slugs and snails
To reduce the population, yellow sticky traps and neem oil should be used to treat infected plants. Encourage beneficial insects like lacewing
Whiteflies
Use reflective mulch and insecticidal soap. Promote natural predators such as predatory mites to control thrips
Thrips
To reduce and prevent infestation, introduce natural predators like lacewings, and ladybugs and maintain proper humidity levels
Spider mites
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