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Closed for Labor Day
In 1882 either Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, or Matthew Maguire, and a machinist and later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., suggested the idea of celebrating a national Labor Day. The idea behind the proposal, whoever really conceived the idea, was to dedicate the first Monday of September to the social and economic achievements of American workers. That’s us, so we’ll be closed for this Monday, Sept. 1st.
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End of Summer Grub Control Sale
Out of sight, out of mind. But we shouldn’t forget or ignore the fact that right now pests are regrouping — preparing their forces for next year’s onslaught. For example, Japanese beetles, are now little grubs, eating your lawn, fattening themselves. They will then take a nap through the winter, to recharge their batteries, so they will be ready to resume feeding and fattening and developing at the soonest opportunity next spring. Reminding you of this is one thing, and we suppose it helps, but we figure you might appreciate a sale of these items even more. We figured that’s one way to get your attention.
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Asian Longhorn Beetle Found in Mass
We like to share important dispatches you might find interesting or informative. Here’s one from the University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension concerning the Asian Longhorn Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis). What follows is directly from the announcement (edited for web).
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How to Make a Tick Trap
In the article The Grand Tick Hunt we told you we’d cover the how-to of making an effective tick trap. Fulfilling that promise we offer this article. This is not the most practical trap, nor is it small, easy, disposable, or any of those other things that seem to strike a chord with the American consumer, but it is effective.
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Orius For Thrips, Now On Sale
It’s always slower at this time of year. The greenhouse crops are long out the door, and fall crop production is only in its early stages. Pests for the most part are under control, things have stabilized. Most of the turmoil seems to occur early in the season. Even though this is good time of year to start working on some pests for better control next year — we’ll discuss this in more detail later at a later date. — it’s mostly quiet on the front lines. But, despite all this stability in growers’ crops, we still hear from some about issues with thrips. Being that’s the case, we figured Orius insidiosus would be a good organism to put on sale.
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Aphidoletes Against Psyllids, Too
We’ll share others we think you’ll find interesting.
Every now and then we receive reports about what’s going on behind the scenes in our industry. News of experimentation, trials, candidate biocontrols, new sprays, and the like. Typically these reports wouldn’t be too important to our readers and customers as they are early reports, but one we got last week that may be of interest to some — especially those willing to conduct their own experiments perhaps. And most notably to those who have talked to us about their problems with psyllids. The following pertains to the potato (tomato) psyllid (Paratrioza cockerelli), but may be applicable to other species.
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