Insect Pest Control

Plant Protection: Insect Pest Control

Insect traps and barriers can provide effective crop protection without the use of pesticides. Select from the assortment of tried and tested deterrents to the newest innovations to control and monitor insects in the garden and also in the greenhouse.

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Drystick Sticky Traps

You will find these traps represent a perfect greenhouse pest population early warning system, allowing you to hit the first wave of invaders with a barrage of biological pest control measures and organic sprays

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Tree Bands

These pesticide-free glue bands have a non-drying adhesive and provide effective and simple protection for your fruit trees. Ideal for preventing the winter moth females crawling up the trunk to lay their eggs.

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Insect Barrier Glue 200g

Tree trunks are a key route for many pests to attack fruit trees and this Insect Barrier Glue can provide an easy way of monitoring pest activity.

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Pea Moth Trap

This pheromone-based trap helps attract and trap adult pea moths, giving you a good idea of their numbers and removing a few for good measure.

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Garden Chafer Trap

The more Garden Chafer beetles you catch in the Garden Chafer Trap in May means less lawn-wrecking grubs devouring the roots of your well-kept grass in August and September.

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Raspberry Beetle Trap

Use this Raspberry Beetle Trap, which doubles as a monitoring kit, to detect the early signs of raspberry beetle by placing it 1m above ground, 4-6 weeks before first flower during April to July. The Raspberry Beetle Trap helps to improve the timing and efficiency of spray treatment, thereby reducing crop damage or any unnecessary spray application.

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Leek Moth Trap

The Leek Moth Trap is a monitoring system to catch the male leek moth to give advance warning of potential leek moth infestations and also to prevent male leek moths mating reducing the numbers.

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Codling Moth Trap

Codling Moth Traps can be used earlier in the year (from May onwards) to catch and monitor male codling moths. This helps warn of caterpillar attack later in the year and reduces the amount of fertilised females, leading to fewer caterpillars.

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Buzz Off Bottle Top Wasp Traps

Ideal for use towards the end of the summer when worker wasps have been turfed out of their nests, the Buzz Off Bottle Top Wasp Traps are supplied in a pack of six inserts and can be used season after season.

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Carrot Root Fly Trap

Place the orange Carrot Root Fly Traps at the end of carrot rows in mid April to intercept the first generation of carrot fly and relocate the simple to move traps in late May before re-positioning in mid-July for the second generation of this persistent pest.

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