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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 2011. Confused?

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Independence Day — the fourth of July — will soon be upon us. For us it’s always been a demarcation line of sorts. Being that for years our customers have been almost exclusively of the commercial plant-growing variety, the season would slow down for them, sales of plants done, and the season would consequentially slow down for us, too. Now, however, between parks and other institutions, interiorscapers, and more home gardeners finding us on the web than ever before (those sold plants are now in their, your, hands, perhaps), our season has been extended right through to the end. And we’re with you all the way. But first, here are two important announcements.

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Once a week we get a report from Brian Spencer of Applied Bio-nomics Ltd. in British Columbia (Canada). It’s mostly inside news for us and their other world-wide distributors, but we occasionally share a tidbit or two if it’s interesting or generally helpful. This one falls into the interesting category, but could prove helpful for some if serving as motivation to try something new. It concerns the soil-dwelling predator Atheta coriaria.

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At the urging of one of the biological pest control agent producers we work with, we have decided to bring on board a somewhat newer strain of our popular whitefly parasitoid, Encarsia formosa. Specifically, we’ve added what is known as the Nile Delta strain of E. formosa.

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