Completed project
Impact of pesticides on beneficial arthropods of importance in Australian vegetable production (VG16067)
Publication date: October 23, 2020
Delivery Partner: IPM Technologies
This project, which ran from 2018 to 2020, developed a series of crop-specific guides for growers and advisors wanting to use or give advice on integrated pest management (IPM). The guides include important information on the impact of pesticides on insects and mites that play a beneficial role in the Australian vegetable industry. This information is essential for making decisions about the use of pesticides in vegetable crops that are grown using integrated pest management.
The guides were developed in consultation with growers, advisors, resellers, biological control producers, chemical companies, and researchers, the information makes it easy to see the relative impact of different products on species relevant to each crop type.
Australian vegetable growers have three groups of pest control options:
Using these options together to achieve optimum results is known as integrated pest management (IPM). Understanding the effects of pesticides on beneficial insect and mite species is a key element of any successful IPM program.
Access all the guides and information about integrated pest management below:
Several articles were also shared with industry as the project progressed, including:
This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Vegetable Fund
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