Anyone who google for a minute on the topic of catching insects with ultraviolet illumination visible light will chop-chop regain the well - known blue insect killers as found in snack parallel bars or butchers . This is also the pillow slip with Ardisia grower Dick van den Bos . About four years ago he suddenly suffer the presence of the gillyflower moth . A pest insect that proved hard to control .
Until Dick decide to invest in a ultraviolet illumination lighting trap from LedsProtect , especially design for horticulture . Since then , he ( almost ) only meet the dreaded moth in a trap full of other pest louse and not in his crop .
An older modeling of the ultraviolet illumination trap in the nursery at Ardisia grower Dick
Convinced quickly“As shortly as I set out to encounter the moth , I really studied them , ” says Dick . Over the years he has grown more and more organically and therefore used less and less harvest aegis products . " There turn out to be no suitable means to battle the clove pink moth , but I still had to do something , specially against the caterpillar of the moth . "
A good understanding to do a Google search for a solution . He found this in the ultraviolet illumination light from LedsProtect . After his Internet search , Dick contact Peter Kerkhof . He develop the UV light and visited Dick in the glasshouse to hang one lamp as a test . “ It shortly became plain that I enchant a lot of moths . I was quickly confident . ”
reflex lightsThis means that nowadays there are a total of 12 UV light trap diffuse over the two subdivision in his 1.3 hectare glasshouse , just above the crop . “ Peter has made a computation establish on the optimal range of the trap . All I really had to do myself was make the electricity supplies at the points where the trap was hanging . After that it is a matter of water in the trap and twinkle on . ”
The trap is equipped with UV lamps . They are not on all 24-hour interval . “ When it starts to get dark , the lights go on mechanically . A sensor in the trap involve care of that . specially at Nox , the blue light that chew over in the water system really catches the middle and the pest insect fall into the trap . ”
But visitors to his greenhouse also always necessitate about the dramatic trap . “ Many multitude do n’t make out what it is yet . I always wish to explain to them what the snare does for me and I think that many more growers can benefit from it . ”
A fresh version of the UV trap . The late interlingual rendition , which will be discuss shortly in this publishing , is fluorescent yellow and equipped with a renewed lens .
Little bit of soapIt before long became apparent that the trap caught more than just carnation moths . “ You are sometimes really amazed at what you find in the maw . Sometimes there are large specimen . ” To get the smallest specimen , Dick always adds a niggling max or detergent when replace the water in the trap . " A tip from Peter to break the water tension , so that some creatures that would otherwise stay on the water are also catch . "
It takes about nine months to grow Ardisia . When fill the greenhouse with young plant life material , Dick like a shot hangs up the lamps . After that , he regularly visit the lamps to replace urine , clean the trap and scout . “ Over the years I have been catching fewer bug . A good sign . " Also important : Dick does not encounter biologic control agents in the trap . " I see gliding fly sheet myself , but they are never snare , " just like pest insect from outside the greenhouse . “ Because you string up the trap just above the craw and the compass of the trap is n’t that great , you do n’t attract additional pest insect . It means that with this solution I can produce even considerably organically . "
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