Winter rapeseed is threatened by cruciferous aphids and whiteflies.

Winter rapeseed is already suffering from cruciferous flea beetles, whiteflies, cabbage aphids, winter owl moth caterpillars, mealybugs, rapeseed sawfly, cabbage moths, and other pests. This was reported by Oleksandr Myhlovets, head of the agrotechnology department at Ukravit. Moreover, cereal flies, aphids, leafhoppers, grain fleas, and other phytophagous insects develop and feed on the stubble of cereals, and later they will move to the seedlings of winter cereals and cause damage there. "In a warm, dry, prolonged autumn with elevated temperatures, pests can bother crops almost until the beginning of wintering. The only way to deal with them is to monitor the condition of the crops and, if the pest threshold level is exceeded, carry out the necessary insecticide treatments," the expert emphasizes. According to him, the insecticide KhimArs (thiamethoxam, 250 g/l + lambda-cyhalothrin, 80 g/l + alpha-cypermethrin, 15 g/l) will help control a wide range of common pests of winter ...