US EditionCicada Plague in Germany – This Is the Situation in Switzerland
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The reed glass wing cicada prepares itself on German fields – and ensures massive yield breaks. What about Switzerland? In Germany, potatoes are mainly infected by the pathogens that pass on to plants when sucking cicadas. Image: Stefan BohrerThe reed glass wing cicada prepares itself on German fields – and causes massive yield breaks. What about Switzerland?Soft potatoes and rubber reeds – an insect causes massive crop losses for German farmers…
Germany is threatened by a potato shortage due to cicadas. The pathogens are also on the rise in Switzerland, for example, on Martin Uhlmann's farm. However, he also expects the federal government to react quickly in an emergency.
uploaders comment:First it was only sugar beet, then potatoes, now also onions, cabbage, rhubarb and paprika are softened.A plant disease spread by cicadas causes partly massive losses in agriculture – until total loss. The descendants of the reeds glass wing cicada (Pentastiridius leporinus) suck at crop residues or at the roots of the winter crops. This damages the affected crops, in which they transmit bacterial pathogens.These then trigger t…
The asparagus harvest is already in full swing. Strawberries from Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate are already available. Now there is a regional speciality on the plate: the potato. Today the official season of the potato harvest begins, or rather: the Palatinate Grumbee. These are this year with the first early potatoes from German cultivation. The Palatinate Grumbee has done well so far and this time is even a little earlier than usual. Hartmut…
The local potato is in danger. The plant disease Stolbur is preparing itself in Bavaria – with serious consequences. "In the affected regions, potato cultivation will no longer be possible.
In large parts of Germany sugar beet and potato harvests are in danger – through an insect that was not originally native to Germany.And under special protectionWhat do reeds glass wing cicadas look like?An adult female reed wing cicadas (Pentastiridius leporinus) reach a length of just under one centimetre (five to nine millimetres), the males are even smaller. Their bodies are dark brown to black, the front wings transparent (hence the name) w…
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