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Download PDF Oilseed rape is a crop that still has a lot to offer if the CSFB problem can be overcome, but many of the growers sticking with the crop this autumn will be hoping fortune favours the brave. CPM investigates the role of natural predators. There’s a big opportunity to develop biocontrol measures. By Lucy de la Pasture With the realisation that chemistry no longer cuts it as far as reliable cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) control is concerned, all eyes are on the scientific community to help come up with an alternative strategy to keep oilseed rape in the rotation. Understanding the behaviour of the pest is an important step in developing ways to manage it and in this 12-page special, CPM explores IPM in practice and some of the new research into the ecology of CSFB and slugs, which may help lead to improved IPM practices in the future. Cabbage stem flea beetle migrate into newly planted OSR crops in the autumn, but it’s not known how far they can fly to find the crop There’s still a lot that isn’t understood about CSFB, explains Dr Sam Cook, insect behavioural ecologist at Rothamsted Research. “We know the…
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