Encarsia formosa

What city will you be from?
I, for example, know for sure that the Nizhny Novgorod Plant Protection Station (StaZR) encarzia is bred and sold to greenhouses. Try to find out in your regional StaZR.

This post was edited by Bad Den - 06.09.2006 21: 58

I'm from Moscow, but I read in a book that there are specialty stores where you can buy such insects.(in general, it's a little funny: "hello, please weigh me 100 g of encarzium))) To be honest, I don't even know what units they are used in)), unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out anything concrete yet, so now I'm trying all the available methods... Thank You

Well, information on encarzia is easy to find on the Internet, especially on resources dedicated to biomethod. Unlike encarzia itself. There are stores that sell it and other biomethod agents (predatory bedbugs and ticks, for example) in Western Europe, but I haven't heard about them here. In Ukraine, there is no production of encarsia, but in Russia, judging by previous reports, you can get copies from the lines of plant protection stations. I suggest a third way. Encarzia is a standard inhabitant of many greenhouses and greenhouses, where it spontaneously penetrates together with the owner — the greenhouse whitefly. Infected whitefly larvae, initially whitish, turn grayish-black, then an exit hole appears, from where the rider comes out (it seems to be from encyrtids). Whitefly is almost everywhere (especially likes in greenhouses fuchsia, gerbera, pelargonium, lantana, pomegranate, myrtle, sanchetia, calla lilies), and encarsia is everywhere-just try to help and get out. Harm after leaving the "cocoons" of the whitefly encarsia, essno, will not be, it is a monophage (or a narrow oligophagus, perhaps).

Encarsia is from the family Aphelinidae (Chalcidoidea), but they are very close to encyrtids.
http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/Aphelinidae.html
Grigory Hi! go to Diptera.info there is a good company there! )

Encarsia is from the family Aphelinidae (Chalcidoidea), but they are very close to encyrtids.
http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/Aphelinidae.html
Grigory Hi! go to Diptera.info there is a good company there! )

Great, Vitya! I often walk there, but I don't leave any traces of your photos - super, very Tetanocera ferruginea Fll. so delighted, for example. Thank you for the link to encarzius! But there is still a question - in our greenhouses on a soft lozhnoshchitovka (a common pest for closed ground) there are long-noticed riders, such stocky ones, with a very large head. I collected them in alcohol, what should I do next? On the shields after the exit of the rider's imago, a round hole, a "hatch", remains... The rider does not make weather, but constantly crushes part of the host population. We have no one really can not answer where to dig something...

These are most likely encyrtides, you need to look at the determinant of V. Tryapitsynna