On this page the following entry/entries were made in the month of “August, 2010.” Check out other months in our Archives.
Bug Blog Archives for “August, 2010”
The Entomology and IPM Success Relationship
Biological pest control, when one first sees it, must seem terribly complex. What with all those fresh terms filling our minds and having to grasp novel ideas like quelling our expectations of instakill-satisfaction, and focusing our biological pest controls strategies such as better identifying our pests and acting proactively. These complexities, however, are common to pest control as a whole for the most part so the biological part of the equation doesn’t really add a new layer. Still, using living organisms to control other living organisms worries many. They think to themselves that they must be an entomologist or bug scientist to really succeed at biocontrol. It’s just not so.
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Summer’s a Good Savings Time, Too.
If you recall from our last Bug Blog entry, summer’s good fighting time. And it’s true. And in our normal effort to be wicked timely, we have decided to offer you a discount of our Heterorhabditis bacteriophora (Hb) nematodes and our Trichogramma spp. parasitoids for a limited time. This should help make summer an even better fighting time — since it’ll now cost you a little less.
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Summer’s Good Fighting Time
August and September is a time when many growers let things slide a bit. Gardeners put their gardens on autopilot to some extent, and commercial growers are either gearing up for the fall season or have closed their doors until next year. Vacation and summer activities take up residence in the mind, before time runs out. But there is still some work to be done, if you want fewer pests problems next year.
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Crypts’ Huge Overstock Sale
[…] an even more aggressive discount is available for very large orders of 5000 beetles […]
Well, overstock is the wrong word for it, but production levels are quite high so we’re offering this partially manufacturer-sponsored sale of our mealybug-eating Cryptolaemus montrouzieri beetles.
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