Green Shopping Direct

Description These 3 mm. mini-wasps are best used for preventing the establishment of several leafminer species. They can also tackle minor infestations. And, if established, they can adequately protect a crop throughout the season.D. siberica,, which are shipped as pre-emerged, pre-fed adults, are the product of choice when leafminers are first seen, or soon expected to be seen, in a cooler area. They do best in cooler conditions.Some of the several species which can be controlled with these parasitoids include the Florida, chrysanthemum or serpentine leafminer (Liriomyza trifolii), the tomato leafminer (L. bryoniae) and many others of economic importance.Life-style These parasitoids work by laying eggs directly into the larvae of leafminers. And they can lay up to 72 eggs, killing a like number of the larvae. They do this while the larvae are working in their mines or tunnels. These mines are created as the larvae consume the leaf's mesophyll (the cells which make the center of the le