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Pests
8 February 2021
Slugs are a primary pest in many field crops, affecting both yield and quality
8 February 2021
Find out about the environmental factors that favour slug activity
8 February 2021
How to identify the main slug species in field crops
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4 February 2021
Growers explain how they are using our research and knowledge exchange
18 December 2020
IPM in Field Vegetables - information and resources available from AHDB Horticulture to aid the growing of field vegetable crops using Integrated Pest Management (IPM), including the use of resistant varieties to pest monitoring
2 March 2023
BASF on how working with AHDB helps get their products for minor crops to market
25 November 2020
Our AHDB Aphids event is planned in response to concerns raised by the industry on the loss of key actives for aphid control across a number of crops.
21 September 2020
A video explaining how the Agronomists' Induction will work in 2020
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6 June 2022
Learn about the life cycle of this important virus-spreading aphid
8 September 2022
These pages provide background to the devastating leaf, fruit and stem mining pest, Tuta absoluta.
13 October 2021
This guide describes the biopesticides registered as plant protection products and outlines how they can be used successfully as part of IPM programmes in horticultural crops.