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Bug Blog Archives for “September, 2011”
Fall Whitefly Prevention Sale
Maybe you’re firing up your greenhouse for the next crop cycle, or closing one up to the outdoors for the winter. Perhaps you’re growing poinsettias. If any of these describe you, you might want or need to release some whitefly parasitoids for prevention or low infestation management. Specifically you might want or need some Encarsia formosa (for greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum), or the E. formosa Nile Delta strain or Eretmocerus eremicus (for other common greenhouse-inhabiting species like sweet potato or silverleaf whiteflies, Bemisia spp.). If you do, this sale can help you save.
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Time for Your Input, If You Want to Give It
It’s that time of year again: catalog preparation time. For us it’s time to think about next year. We know we want to keep pricing the same, as much as that’s possible, anyway. In other words we will avoid raising prices as much as our suppliers allow — if they raise prices then we must, too. We did get out of trouble this year, thankfully, and have so far, at the time of this writing, kept our heads above water. But the economy is still weak so we’re sensitive to the needs of our customers, just as we’re sensitive to our own needs. It’s a very delicate thing; a fine line; a balancing act.
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Fall Fallacis On Leaves Sale
A great time to go after spider mites is at the end of the summer, beginning of autumn, when the weather is cooling down. Fall is an awesome time to put out Neoseiulus fallacis on leaves, specifically, to help clean things up so folks like field strawberry growers, winter-closed greenhouse growers, and several others, can start off cleaner in the spring. It works well as reports over the years have confirmed.
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Practitioner Interview: Lucinda Grover
It’s been a while since we’ve posted a Practitioner Interview (see past interviews by perusing our Real Growers blog category). Thus, it’s our distinct please to feature an interview of long-time biocontrol and IPM practitioner, Lucinda Grover, Lead Horticulturist, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park of Grand Rapids, MI. So, without further ado…
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