TRICHOGRAMMA

The project provides optimal solutions for successful crop cultivation using natural methods and tools. The use of entomophages is the key to healthy crop production and a clean environment.

We have the technology for mass commercial cultivation of Trichogramma, a parasitoid less than 1 mm in size. It parasitises on the eggs of over 180 species of butterflies. After its 3X, it finds the eggs of its enemies and lays them. The parasitoid larvae hatch in the enemy egg and eat it inside.

By applying innovative bio-know-how and precision technology, we have created unique end products that combine different types of trichromograms, special agents and colonisation technologies.

The various products we offer ensure that they protect your crops.

ECONOMIC BENEFITS

Biological plant protection leads to reduced pest and disease attacks, better interactions and mutual natural protection of crops, increased efficiency of agricultural technologies, which ultimately leads to higher profits and greener production.

STRATEGIC BENEFITS

20-30% higher yields.
High quality production
Displacement of entomophages ensures the conservation of beneficial micro-organisms and insects
Retention of topsoil
Reduces costs for plant protection
Does not lead to resistant races and strains

NOVELTY

Cultivation and displacement of entomophages is an innovative method that results in high quality production at reduced plant protection costs.

ACCURACY

Determination of the exact dosage, timing of the application and the required entomophage is done by our specialists.

EFFICIENCY

Entomophage colonization is much more effective than the use of chemical insecticides.

WHAT IT PROTECTS AGAINST

Stalk Drill (Ostrinia nubilalis Hbn.) is the most dangerous pest of maize.
It causes biological and technical damage:

Biological damage causes grain losses of up to 15-40%.

Besides direct damage, feeding by corn stem moth creates conditions for penetration of pathogens such as phytophthora, fusarium wilt, ear rot, etc.

Technical damage occurs as a result of stem and cob breakage as a result of corn moth feeding. Mechanised harvesting is difficult, with losses as high as 50-80%.

HOW IT WORKS

Entomophage introduction is an effective method of integrated biological plant protection that allows natural control and eradication of more than 200 pest species from all crops at the most important stages of the growing season.

Trichogrammae (Family) Trichogrammatidae) is an entire family of parasitic insects (micro-os) that feed on the eggs of various enemies on crops. Trichogrammae are very small and do not exceed one millimetre in size

Upon finding the eggs of an enemy (various members of the Butterfly family), the Trichogramma lays one or more of its eggs in them (depending on size). The insect is very well adapted to the living conditions of its host. A few hours after laying, a larva merges and immediately begins to feed, destroying its host. When the larva completes its development, it transforms into a pupa and then into an adult insect, which bursts the shell of the host egg and takes off to give life to the next generation. One female lays up to 80 eggs in her life.

Development from egg to adult takes about 10-15 days, depending largely on climatic conditions, and may take up to three weeks at low temperatures.

Against each enemy generation, 2-4 displacements (colonization) of trichogrammae with intervals of 5-7 days, and in case of displacement of the capsule (trichogrammae of varying degree of development) are carried out: 2-3 offsets at intervals of 10-12 days. The first offset coincides with the beginning of oviposition, the next with the period of mass laying of eggs by the enemy.

INFESTATION BY DRONES

Usually to protect farms from cicadas and related pests, 1-2 campaigns of infestation (colonization) with Trichogrammae at the rate of 100-200-300 thousand individuals per 1 ha, or 1.25-2.5-4 g of biomaterial per 1 ha are conducted. These figures are indicative and depend on the initial number of pests, their oviposition dynamics, weather conditions and the quality of the trichogramma.

One team of drone operators can treat up to 2,000 hectares in one day.