Tip Top Bio-Control – General Grower's Supply

Delphastus Pusillus - (Predator)

 

Temperature range
65°– 90° Fahrenheit. 20% – 80% Relative Humidity

Adult
Minute black lady beetle about the size of the bottom half of the figure "8". Female will live about 50 days laying 3-4 eggs per day if whiteflies are plentiful. They require 100-150 whitefly eggs per day to maintain laying.

Feeds On
They have a voracious appetite for whitefly eggs, scale and spider mites.

Release Rates
1 beetle per 15 - 50 sq. ft. 10-20 per plant biweekly depending on the infestation or 2,000 per 3,000 sq. ft. Use along with Encarsia formosa. Very effective for sweet potato whitefly.

Note: Works well in low temperatures and low light.