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Bug Blog Archives for “August, 2008”
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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