Biocontrol

One strategy for pest control is to release predators and parasites: nematodes for soil-borne pests, micro-organisms for soil-borne plant diseases and weeds.

• Development of workable organic control methods for pests and diseases in fruit and vegetable production.
• Supplementation of the currently prevalent physical weed control methods with workable biocontrol
  methods in various crop types.

Projects

• Biocontrol of the cherry fruit fly with entomopathogenic fungi
• Trichogramma against cabage pests

Completed projects

• Biocontrol of the creeping thistle (project description in the Organic Eprints Database)
• Biocontrol of Convolvulus arvensis and Calystegia sepium
• Release of reared ladybirds (Adalia bipunctata) to control the rosy apple aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea) (project description in the Organic Eprints Database)
• Biocontrol of the cherry fruit fly with entomoparasitic nematodes

Contact

Eric Wyss

Literature

Literature on “Biocontrol” in the Organic Eprints Database