Our research and development capability, together with training, provides a total solution for countries or organizations needing to respond to a particular pest problem. Please contact us for further information about training solutions designed to meet your needs. In response to demand, CAB International has developed a special course on Whiteflies and Their Natural Enemies . These are major pests of crops and ornamental plants grown in glasshouses and outdoors throughout the world. As well as direct damage to plants, they often cause further damage by infecting plants with diseases they carry.
Whiteflies are also notoriously difficult to control by chemical means.
Biological control provides an effective, and environmentally safe method of managing these pests. This course, which has been run successfully in Australia, the Philippines and the U.K., enables participants to diagnose problems caused by whiteflies and to use biological controls to ensure that their plants remain healthy plants. More information about other courses on pest groups and their natural enemies at our worldwide centres. Insect Pathology and Biopesticides Biopesticides are biological pesticides based on naturally occurring, beneficial pathogens of insects, weeds, and nematodes. Produced, formulated and applied in appropriate ways, biopesticides can provide safe, environmentally friendly alternatives to chemical pesticides and effective solutions to pest problems.