Insect and Mite Pests

Mambo-Tox staff have many years of experience in carrying out studies to evaluate the efficacy of agrochemical products against a wide variety of pests, weeds and diseases. We can either design studies to answer specific scientific questions about a product, or we can carry out tests to established guidelines and protocols.

We have specialised culturing facilities for the maintenance of a range of insect pests of field and glasshouse crops. We are also able to hold non-endemic species under quarantine in our licensed Insectary.

Studies can be carried out under laboratory, glasshouse, semi-field or field conditions. In the field, pest outbreaks are often sporadic in time and space, or numbers may prove too low for meaningful data analysis. Thus we have developed techniques for introducing and establishing pest populations on growing crops, prior to field trials commencing.