Backie , a pesticide - free snail snare , allows for sustainable snail ascendence in gardening . The bunker is developed by Studio Catch Horticulture Solutions , and its market launching will take place next year . The trapt represents the next tone in sustainable plague dominance .
The trap was earlier designed to combat the Spanish Slug in the Cut - Cymbidium refinement . Here , the punch each year get up to € 5 of damage per hearty meter , as proper shelter was not available . in effect pest control has become importantly more hard due to legislation on previously used pesticides . Other options such as biologic enemies and catching clout manually are not adequately preventing flora impairment .
Joost van Santen , Jaco de Vries ( Houweling ) , Benjamin Aartsen , Sarit Wienke , Laura Drost ( Studio Catch )
Backie was developed in reply to this problem . This trap uses pale yellow bran as bait to arrest slugs sustainably without additives . Its configuration is optimally designed to promote a large attracter r and to maintain many slugs . Tests showed that the trap is not only effective in the Cut - Cymbidium greenhouse but that it ’s also applicable to other cultivation , such as Alstroemeria and Gerbera .
The maw is designed by Studio Catch Horticulture Solutions . They started in 2022 from a collaborationism between design students from TU Delft and cymbidium cultivator . After make Backie , the need for sustainable cuss control and adaptation in the horticulture sphere became even clearer . As a result , the house decorator eventually founded Studio Catch HS , a designing business firm that aims to fix the gardening sector for the future in collaborationism with cultivator . " We see that gardening has many opportunities to embrace innovation ; we thirstily accept this challenge ! " says Benjamin Aartsen , CEO of Studio Catch HS .
CollaborationAside from the coaction with the raiser , Studio Catch receives a hatful of bread and butter from Houweling Horticulture . The collaborationism between Studio Catch HS , Houweling Horticulture , and the growers create Backie ’s success .
Houweling HortiCulture is responsible for for the production and sales of the Backie escargot trap . " Through this collaborationism , we can jointly make horticulture a scrap more sustainable , " says Joost van Santen , score manager at Houweling Group . " That ’s a capital feeling . "
For more information : Houweling HorticultureJoost van SantenTel . : +31 88 1210 590[email protected]www.houweling.com
