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Bug Blog Archives for 2009 October

We don’t actually offer orchard mason bees, Osmia lignaria, in our catalog — we used to back in 1999 to 2004 — and we don’t offer them online, yet it has been brought to my attention that I should announce that folks should order them now if they want them for 2010. Confused?

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Our latest sale, a discount on the regular price of our whitefly predatory beetle, Delphastus cataliniae, has been very helpful to people since this fall there seems to be an unusually high number of growers reporting troubles with whiteflies. Since this sale has been so useful and utilized, we decided continuing it instead of posting a new sales item would be in the best interest of many.

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Biocontrol and IPM can be a difficult topic to write about on a regular basis. The science is fairly static — or it seems to be — and most writers we know of tend to do the same thing we do: Rewrite and refresh old material. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Having old stuff in a top position puts it in the hands of newcomers which eat it up voraciously. Moreover, as we age and refine our thinking, the most current draft is usually the best draft. What’s all this lead-in for, you may wonder. You caught us. It’s an excuse to branch out into other environmental topics of possible interest to you. Such as landfills.

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As folks start moving their plants indoors, we’re been getting a record number of calls from those who have been discovering random populations of whiteflies. As always, trying to be responsive to people’s needs versus selling something not moving right now, we’ve decided to put our whitefly predatory beetle Delphastus cataliniae on sale.

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