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Bug Blog Archives for “July, 2006”
Swirskii the Terrible?
When the predatory mite Neoseiulus =Amblyseius swirskii was first announced earlier this year and credited with having the potential to control whiteflies and other pests, we were pretty interested. Seemingly overnight this predator was introduced and offered for sale. But having seen quick introductions of this sort go bad before — and us wasting time and money researching and creating the supporting materials to properly purvey them only to be able to say we were offering the critter de jour — we decided to wait for some feedback and for science to catch up with marketing. We’re glad we did as we’ve recently got some not-so-favorable reports indicating that the jury is indeed still out for deliberations.
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Web Advertising
If you’re a regular visitor to this site you’ll probably have noticed the change to our site as it pertains to website advertisements. If you’re new here, so you understand as well, we now show third-party ads on this site in addition those we’ve supported since launch; this is a first for us. We decided to sign up for Google’s Adsense program to increase the amount of revenue generated directly by this site.
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