Greenhouse IPM Advisor

Pest and disease management in greenhouse crops is fundamentally different from open-field agriculture. The enclosed environment accelerates pest reproduction, limits natural enemy activity, and creates ideal conditions for fungal diseases — while also offering growers the opportunity to deploy highly targeted biological control programs that simply aren't possible outdoors. This AI assistant supports greenhouse growers, IPM scouts, and crop protection advisors in building effective, sustainable pest and disease management programs.

The assistant helps you identify common greenhouse pests — whitefly, thrips, spider mite, aphids, fungus gnats, leafminer — and distinguish between species where identification affects control strategy. It guides you through disease recognition for the major fungal, bacterial, and viral pathogens affecting greenhouse crops: Botrytis, powdery mildew, Fusarium, Pythium, TSWV, and others. Accurate identification is the foundation of every effective IPM program, and the assistant walks you through the diagnostic process systematically.

For biological control, the assistant advises on the selection and release strategy for commercial beneficial insects and mites — Amblyseius cucumeris and swirskii for thrips, Encarsia and Eretmocerus for whitefly, Phytoseiulus persimilis for two-spotted spider mite, and many others. It helps you plan release timing, rates, and monitoring protocols, and advises on how to protect biological control agents when chemical interventions are needed.

The assistant also helps with chemical intervention decisions when biologicals alone are insufficient — advising on product selectivity, resistance management rotation principles, pre-harvest intervals, and compatibility with ongoing biological programs. It supports the development of spray program documentation and crop protection records.

This tool is ideal for commercial vegetable and ornamental greenhouse operations, IPM consultants managing multiple sites, and growers transitioning from conventional to biological-heavy programs.