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Bug Blog Archives for 2011 March

We once again have blue sticky traps. The maker of our yellow traps stopped producing blue awhile back, another manufacturer we worked with did the same, and our old stockpile of 4"x9" traps was exhausted. After some poking around we found some with one of current suppliers and are proud to offer them now. The 4"x10" (10×25mm.) Horiver in blue, a mid-size gridded blue sticky trap for thrips monitoring.

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In the same spirit of our recent aphid parasitoids sale, we’re trying to serve your needs well by offering something on sale that is actually needed at this time of year. Thus, we’re now having a sale on our most popular whitefly parasitoid, Encarsia formosa. Doing this helps encourage early implementation which often results, consequently, in successful prevention of the very common “greenhouse whitefly” species, Trialeurodes vaporariorum.

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When we mailed out the first batch of our Green Methods catalogs in January it was specifically to our commercial and institutional customers. Now that we’re a little closer to spring we’re presently sending out catalogs to the remainder of our customers, namely to individuals who garden or grow plants, and don’t have a business name. If this is you, look for it in your mailbox within the next couple of weeks. For more information about this year’s catalog, keep reading, what follows is a re-cap of our January announcement.

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As we’ve said of our sales in the past, we always try to pick items to discount that are in need at the time they’re discounted. Thus, right now and for the next two weeks, we will be offering most of our aphid parasitoids for less. In other words, you can save now on some of the Aphidius spp. and Aphelinus abdominalis.

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