Beneficial organisms in organic farming

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Beneficial organisms are insects that, in one way or another, benefit your production. They pollinate crops, control pests and improve the soil.

Beneficial organisms can be divided into 2 main groups: generalists and specialists. The generalists are the foragers. They eat everything they can get their hands on. Specialists are masters at eating very specific things. For example, ground beetles eat almost anything smaller than themselves, while ladybirds specialise in eating aphids. For every pest, there are often many beneficials that can help regulate the pests.

Reference work on the effects of beneficials on pests

The 'Pests and beneficials' catalogue introduces you to some of the common pests in cereal crops, rapeseed and legumes respectively. The focus of the catalogue is pest control in an organic way, using preventive strategies and control with beneficials. The catalogue also includes a key that guides you to some of the most common beneficial insects based on simple characteristics.

Catalogue: Pests and beneficials (pdf file, 42 pages)

Interactive catalogue with much more knowledge about beneficials

In the interactive beneficial organisms catalogue, you can easily click your way to even more knowledge about beneficial organisms, but more importantly, which measures you can implement in and around your fields to promote the population of beneficial organisms. With this catalogue, we hope to arouse your curiosity to get to know the benificials

better and start working more in-depth with managing them on your farm.

The catalogue includes an introduction to beneficials in agriculture and a thorough overview of the different groups of beneficials that can have a major impact on pest populations in your fields.

Interactive beneficials catalogue

Beneficial pests poster

Graphics of the most common beneficials in the field can be found in poster format via the link below. Let it decorate your coffee room to remind you and your employees who the most common beneficials are.

Poster 50x70 cm (pdf file, 1 p)