Guardian Plants Pull Pests and Host Their Natural Enemies
Indicator and trap plants pull pests
Habitat and banker plants support natural enemy reproduction
The term Guardian Plant includes all these functions
- Save time detecting pests and their natural enemies
- Grow your own steady supply of natural enemies
- Cut shipping costs for natural enemies
- Efficiently evaluate pest/natural enemy balance
- Guardian Plant
- Lantana
- Pest
- Whitefly
- Natural Enemy
- Encarsia Formosa
- Guardian Plant
- Marigolds
- Pest
- Thrips
- Natural Enemy
- Orius
- Guardian Plant
- Beans
- Pest
- Two-spotted spider mite
- Natural Enemy
- Predatory mites
- Guardian Plant
- Eggplants
- Pest
- Whitefly
- Natural Enemy
- Encarsia formosa
- Guardian Plant
- Peppers
- Pest
- Aphids
- Natural Enemy
- Aphids parasites
Pest frequency in crop (% of crop plants where one or more individuals of the pest are found)
Pull ratio (# pests counted on Guardian Plant samples / # Pests on the same number of Crop samples)
Balance Ratio (# pests / # of natural enemies on the Guardian Plants). Gives the number of pests per natural enemy.
Presence of immature natural enemies indicates of natural enemy population producing its next generation on the Guardian Plant
Slide Show of 2011 Guardian Plant trials in vegetable fields in Eden NY 2011
