Get Ahead of Garden Pests This Spring

As warmer days bring the flowers in your garden out of hibernation, it’s the perfect time for insect pests to start looking for young green shoots and flower buds to feast on. Fortunately, the Insect Science® Home and Garden Range is on hand to help.

Meet the new Insect Science® range

Home and garden owners across South Africa have recently gained access to a new, ecofriendly range of responsible insect pest-management products that will help you monitor and manage insect pests. The Insect Science® Home and Garden range provides a simple, easy-touse alternative to traditional insecticide-based products.

Insect Science has spent years researching and developing products that help farmers – and now gardeners and home owners – to manage insect pests using nature’s ways, leaving no harmful residues. A major focus for Insect Science® is the development and manufacturing of pheromone-based products, along with the use of specific colours, to help growers to target certain insect pests without the use of toxic insecticides.

This targeted approach means the products avoid harming beneficial insects such as bees and other pollinators. Home owners can produce environmentally-safe crops and plants with these safe, easy-to-use and eco-friendly pest-management solutions.

The Insect Science® Home and Garden range includes blue and yellow sticky cards and rolls for plant pests; sticky traps for flying and food storage pests; and even a pleasant-smelling glue remover that removes all kinds of sticky residues, from wax crayons on your walls to sticker glue. The range is available online at www.shop.insectscience.co.za and other online stores, as well as in major nurseries and retail stores. Get a head start on spring

As insect pests wake up to the prospect of fresh young buds and shoots, now is an important time to monitor for early infestations. Sucking insects, such as leafhoppers, white flies, aphids, and thrips are commonly found in gardens and veggie patches, and can inflict extensive damage if not found early.

Scout for pests by walking through your garden to look for insects, stressed plants, and signs of sooty mould or honeydew. You can also monitor pests by hanging Insect Science’s yellow and blue sticky cards in fruit trees, on rose bushes, or near plants that were plagued by insects in the previous season. As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure, and making use of sticky cards early in the season is a great way to get ahead of the game.

What’s in a colour?

Research has shown that some thrips are attracted to yellow, while the common western flower thrips are more strongly attracted to blue. That’s why Insect Science’s Blue and Yellow Sticky Cards are the perfect pesticide-free method to attract, trap, and monitor all types of thrips in fields, gardens, and greenhouses. Insect Science

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