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Bug Blog Archives for 2008

Just because we’re on vacation, we can still offer you a sales item to benefit from. This time it’s the thrips predatory mite Neoseiulus cucumeris we’re offering. This sale isn’t in effect due to some natural occurrence or seasonal window as some of our promotions are, this item is on sale for the simple reason that it’s summer and some of our customers have thrips. For a couple of weeks some money can be saved.

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Twice a year — once in the summer and once in the winter — we go on vacation, actually closing our doors. An odd approach to dealing with employee vacations? You bet, but we’re small, very small, extremely small, too small to do this otherwise. This, for us, is the only option we have to take a breather, regain our sanity, and count our money. Okay, kidding about the last item; that only takes a few minutes.

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We’re very selective about our dealers and distributors. We always have been. Being persnickety stems from wanting reliable information given to end-users. In other words our dealers and distributors share our belief that in the long term customers are best served with facts, not marketing hype — our dealers and distributors have a commitment to learn about biocontrol and IPM and impart the facts and their wisdom so as to best serve end-users.

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We offer praying mantises, Tenodera aridifolia sinensis, as egg cases, and in the best interest of these insects, it’s best they go into the garden in June. We like to sell out around this time. After June they’ll still hatch, but numbers will go down and the poor mantids won’t be able to reach reproductive maturity in some parts of the country. That’s why we’re putting them on sale again. They need a home.

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This article was written specifically for home gardeners, those in particular whose financial well being doesn’t depend on the success of a given crop. In many ways the general idea of this — the whole concept of not freaking out over pests — applies to all, but this post has narrower focus. Commercial growers, for obvious economic reasons, must take pests very seriously. We’ve worked with commercial growers for years, but the rest of us, the majority, those who toil in the garden or tend a lawn, can and should relax a bit.

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Implementing changes that matter is rarely easy. People can be difficult to please. That’s why when people go for it, implementing significant changes for the good, we simply must applaud them. Today we’re applauding the town of Camden, Maine. To make a longer story short, the town has banned, barring emergencies, the use of pesticides on all public lands. They didn’t have a big dependence on sprays, according to one news report, but they did suspend any limited applications that were present.

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