Provisional advice

• Preventative
  Use Hypoaspis aculeifer for slabs or pots.Set out 4000 Amblyseius swirskii slow-release bags per hectare one to two weeks prior to flowering. If no thrips or whitefly are present, the introduction should be repeated after five to six weeks.
• Curative (after detection of thrips)
  Upon finding the first thrips, 0.5 Orius laevigatus per m2 should be introduced in order to combat the adult thrips.

• Preventative
  Introduce Amblyseius swirskii slow-release bags one to two weeks prior to flowering: 4000 bags per hectare.
  If no thrips or whitefly are present, the introduction should be repeated after five to six weeks.
• Curative
  Release three to six parasitic wasps per m² (Encarsia formosa and Eretmocerus eremicus) on a weekly basis as soon as the first whitefly is spotted.