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Bug Blog Archives for “September, 2008”
The Stock Up on Stickies Sale
Here’s a quick quiz for you: What’s a grower’s most important pest control responsibility? If you answered “scouting” then you’re right. You may know this by intuition — it does make sense — you may know it from years attending the school of hard knocks, or maybe you picked it up from us. We have been saying it all along. We’ve been telling you that every successful grower needs a solid scouting plan. And we’ve also been telling you that sticky or monitoring traps are an important part of this plan. Now happily we’re telling you we’ve put them on sale!
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Bumblebees in California… Permit Required
Bumblebees (Bombus impatiens), shipped to California, now require the importer to obtain a permit from the state’s food and agricultural department. This isn’t necessarily a new ruling, but it is new to us. Being east coasters we don’t sell many bumblebees in the western states, so this was just brought to our attention. Two things were brought to our attention, actually. Not only is a permit required, but bumblebees can only be used in greenhouses in California.
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