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Bug Blog Archives for “August, 2011”
End of Season Milky Spore Sale
Before the fall months get here, the window to apply milky spore powder against Japanese beetle grubs and select other soil-dwelling pests is wide open — any time the ground isn’t frozen works. To help folks get ‘er done, as they say, we’re having a sale on all in-stock sizes of this popular product, but for only a limited time.
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Memorial Fund in Honor of Dave Simser
Dave Simser, 57, entomologist, mentor, writer, and family friend, passed away on November 26th, 2010, of prostate cancer complications. We’re late in getting this news to our readers as the news was late coming to us (both being busy we sadly only spoke only once or twice per year). He was known to keep his contact information in his head, instead of writing it down or putting it on a computer. His wife was unable to contact us when appropriate. We weren’t the only ones. Dave’s memorial isn’t going to take place until September of this year as finally people are learning about this tragic loss.
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Flowable Products Persimilis Sale
We don’t always decide what item to put on sale due to known pest timing and whatnot, sometimes it’s simply in response to a trend. That’s what we’re doing this time: responding to a trend. Lately the demand for the spider mite predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis has been really quite high. And in response to this, we’re attempting to help folks out by putting the P. persimilis flowable products on sale for a limited time. We’d put the leaf carrier product on sale, too, but current culture limitations are preventing this. The flowable products, though, are robust.
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Wow, Our Twentieth Year
As of August first of this year, our official birthday, we started on our twentieth year of doing business. Our teenage years are fast fading. We’re not exactly graying around the temples yet, but come August 1, 2012, we’re going to have survived twenty years of service. Impressive by some standards. We’re pretty happy about it.
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