Ornamentals

At Michael’s Greenhouses in Cheshire, Connecticut, pest monitoring is becoming more efficient and easier to act on. During the 2025 poinsettia season, the team started using Trap-Eye™ to gain better insight into whitefly and thrips pressure across the crop. The goal was clear: reduce repetitive sticky card work, improve visibility, and support more targeted biological control decisions.

Florensis Kenya is part of the international Florensis family, supplying young plants and cuttings to professional growers in Europe. From its production site in Naivasha, north of Nairobi, cuttings of perennial plants are produced on approximately 14 hectares. The operation is supported by more than 400 employees and focused on quality and meeting strict export standards...

At Stofbergen in Bergschenhoek, 4.5 hectares of bromeliads are grown with a strong focus on sustainability. For Robert van Velzen, who leads crop protection, one pest stood out: the banana moth (Opogona sacchari). Its larvae live deep inside the plant, causing damage long before it is visible...

LKP Plants in Moerkapelle is, with 8 hectares, one of the largest and most modern Bromelia nurseries in the Netherlands. The company is fully committed to automation and digitization, and has invested heavily in automatic cultivation systems in recent years...

In March 2021, Ammerlaan The Green Innovator in Pijnacker started using two PATS-C systems in two of its greenhouses. The monitoring of insects went so well that in June systems were also placed in the two other sections...