Orius beetles are the most effective beneficial animals you can use against thrips, they take both adults and all larval stages of most thrips species.

Orius beetles mainly take thrips. An adult ram can ingest 20 thrips a day, but they can also attack other pests such as spider mites, dwarf mites, aphids and mealybugs. If you only have attacks by pests other than thrips, you should instead use beneficial animals that target those pests effectively.

How are they used?

Orius beetles are sprinkled in the foliage of plants with thrips infestation. In the case of plants with narrow leaves, or where it is otherwise difficult to place the useful animals on the leaves, you can buy bioboxes to hang in the plant

The adult beetles can fly and spread easily in the plants. The nymphs can walk between the plants as long as the leaves touch each other. Orius beetles are sometimes difficult to find among the plants, as they like to hide in nooks and crannies and in the buckwheat husks they are transported with.

Feel free to combine Orius with a set of yellow adhesive discs . You can also combine with swirskii predatory mites or thrips predatory mites in small bags.

Orius beetles can be used both outside in the greenhouse and indoors. Indoors, they don't seek out pantry, bedding or the like, but since they can fly, it's a matter of taste if you want to use them inside.

Orius beetles are sensitive to various pesticides and one should therefore be careful with release after using, for example, provado/provanto sticks. The plants can be sprayed with soap before setting out Orius, in which case it needs to have dried up before setting out.

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