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ORGANIC BIO-MITICIDE 100% Naturally extracted Herbal Based Miticide of Plant Origin
What is Orgamite-BB? :
Orgamite-BB is a new type of Bio-Organic Miticide which has been developed at Super Agro India’s in house research Lab, This Organic Miticide is based on natural herbs and plants, otherwise called botanical insecticides that have miticidal properties. A careful selection of some of the best acting Botanical herbs has been used which has zero polluting effect and also at the same time break down rapidly in the environment ,thereby not causing persistent residues.
This product has been extensively tested for its efficacy and has been found to give a fairly excellent control on mites of vegetables and plantation crops and some insects.
The most important aspect in mite control is the rotation of various miticides to control mite population.
The normal practice of adhering to a single set of Miticide has not yielded long and sustained results. Farmers now have to take a program where they have to use IPM tools in their mite management programme.
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Use of TRSACO ORGAMITE-BB is an option which can be used to break the resistance of many mites which otherwise are getting resistant to conventional miticides.
How does Trasco Orgamite-BB work :
The mites feed by inserting their mouth-parts into the leaf cells and withdrawing the contents, including the chlorophyll. The leaves can recover if the mites are destroyed before the leaves are badly damaged. If much of the chlorophyll has been withdrawn, however, the plant seems to be unable to replace it rapidly, and it is never entirely replaced during the life of the leaves. Compared to insects, mites reproduce far more quickly and mutate more rapidly, Mites have 4 stages: egg, larvae, nymph, and adult. The process of mutation creates new variants resistant to any chemical used repeatedly on mites. Anyone using chemical control must therefore rotate chemical classes frequently to prevent the mites from becoming resistant. A general rule is not to use any specific Miticide more than twice per season. Natural Botanicals helps control mites by smothering mite eggs and the early larval stages, and the pests do not build up an immunity The alkaloids present in the Naturally occurring Botanicals are responsible for the acaricidal effect Natural Botanicals are approved world over for use against aphids on flowers, ornamentals, protected crops, soft fruit, top fruit, and vegetables, and against sawflies in gooseberries, and slug sawflies in pears and roses.
Other target organisms of Natural Botanicals include maggots, bagworms, codling moths, Japanese beetles, leaf hoppers, Mexican bean beetles, cabbage worms, thrips, stinkbugs, flea beetles, and vegetable weevils.
Other means to fight the mite resistance:
Miticides with different modes of action should be rotated within a season or from season to season to delay the development of resistance. Once resistance to a miticide has developed through selection pressure and the miticide is no longer used, the mite population will regress from homozygous resistance to heterozygous resistance. Therefore, a miticide to which resistance was developed some years ago can often be effective again if employed only once in a season. It generally requires a few generations for the mites to regain resistance when exposed to repeated applications of the miticide. Such miticides could be effectively used in a rotation of miticides with different modes of action.
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The Cyclamen Mite :
Acari: Acariformes: Prostigmata: Tarsonemidae :
The cyclamen mite (Phytodromus pallidus (Banks)) is a serious pest of many ornamental flowers and shrubs such as cyclamen, African violet, begonia, gerbera, ivy, chrysanthemums, geranium, fuchsia, larkspur, petunia, snapdragon, etc. Under certain conditions, field strawberries can also be affected. The cyclamen mite is extremely small (0.2 mm) and usually inflicts heavy damage before it is detected.
The foliage of infested plants develops a streaked or blotched appearance. Leaves and leaflets become wrinkled at the point of attack forming little pit-like depressions. New growth is stunted, giving the whole plant a cup shaped appearance. Young leaves may be abnormally hairy, thickened, stiffened and brittle. Flower buds may fail to develop or, if they open, are likely to be distorted. African violets and cyclamen that are attacked may die or will grow so poorly that they may be discarded.
Like spiders, cyclamen mites are arachnids but belong to a different order, the Acari. To survive, they require high relative humidity (80%-90%) and avoid light. They are thus found in unopened leaflets in the crowns of their hosts, between tightly packed young leaves in the leaf bud, or in the cup-like cavities of embryonic flower buds.
The yellowish brown females lay 12 to 16 eggs (each 125 x 75µm) over a period of a week, in clusters of 2 or 3 located between the young leaves of the bud. The eggs hatch 3 to 7 days later. The larvae feed for 1 to 4 days and pupate for 2 to 7 days. The full life cycle requires 1 to 3 weeks.
Control :
Cyclamen mites are well protected by the leaf and flower buds, making them very difficult to control. Unless the plant is particularly valuable, it may be best to discard affected plants and obtain new, healthy ones. Keep new plants isolated until you can be sure no mites or insect pests are present. When buying plants, check them carefully for any signs of an infestation. Do not propagate new plants using leaves from infested plants.
Use Trasco Orgamite-BB to control difficult mites of flowers and vegetables:
Use of Botanical Miticide should be introduced in the mite control Programme.
Composition
A unique combination of Natural Botanical insecticides, natural herbs, Horticultural oils, and emulsifiers.
Dose and method of use
Trasco Orgamite-BB should be definitely integrated in the mite control spray programme.This product can either used singly in Organic cultivation of field crops or used in combination with other miticides in rotation to get the control.
For Flower Plants Either in Poly houses or in open : 1.5 to 2 ml/lit of water every 15 days
For Vegetable Crops: 6 Sprays at 10 days interval @1.5 to 3ml/lit of water
For Plantation Crops : Spray every 15 days @3.5ml/lit
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