Anthonomus amygdali destroys flower buds from November to February, with losses that reached 83% in Apulia. The Greek data is very thin. The cycle month by month, recognition in the field, the monitoring methods, and the two windows in which the insect is reachable, the autumn one and the spring one.
The almond seed wasp with the phenology of emergence and a 2026 field record from Pella, red leaf blotch as a monocyclic disease with its single spray window, spider mite with the sampling thresholds and abamectin resistance, blossom blight, anthracnose, shot hole, Phytophthora, root rots, bacterial diseases and viruses, and the storage moths with the link between insect damage and aflatoxin. A tool that compares field symptoms against the profiles of 25 causes.
The almond removes 76 kg of potassium and only 8 kg of phosphorus per tonne of kernel. Why the winter compound gets all three elements wrong, and how to calculate the real requirement from yield.
The bacterium that destroyed the olive groves of the Salento: how the biofilm kills the tree by thirst, why the nymph of the vector is the only accessible target, why there is no cure, and the two resistant olive cultivars that are now the one hopeful development.
The dryland myth measured against the water requirement, the calendar of the year, fertilisation rates checked against a nutrient balance, and the diseases that decide the crop: Monilinia at bloom, red leaf blotch, bacterial canker, and the almond seed wasp.
The flat-headed root borer kills apparently healthy trees, with the damage done below ground. Biology, a degree-day model for timing the intervention, why drip irrigation needs adjusting, and what the experimental data show: control of the adults comes from combinations of modes of action and application, not from a single active substance.
