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Sucking Up Plant Pests, Revisited
On this site using a there is a helpful hint instructing you to use a shop-vac to suck up whiteflies. It is followed by note of caution about the possibility of sucking up plants and plant parts. I liked the shop-vac idea, it worked well, but I put my own twist on it so I could better protect my plants if there was an unexpected encounter with the business end of the shop-vac’s hose. With a little preparation, you can actually vacuum your plants, allowing for removal of such pests as whiteflies, spider mites, and others, without causing extensive damage. Here’s what you do…
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Some Tick Tech
Remember — don’t get ticked off, [just] get the tick off!
Every summer ticks make headlines, mostly because of their notorious ability to spread disease. Thus, for the month of May, we asked our friend Dave Simser to produce an article for publication here. It’s a little bit on the technical side, but this is some good general information to keep you in the know and to mitigate the dangers associated with ticks. (Intro by Mike Cherim.)
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Trichogramma ostriniae
Co-authored and photo by Abby Seaman and Mike Hoffmann of Cornell University.
The Trichogramma are a group of minute wasps (smaller than a needle’s eye) that lay their eggs in pest moth eggs, where the wasp offspring develop, kill the pest larvae, and produce new wasps. One species, Trichogramma ostriniae (TosTtm), was imported from China in 1990 and has been shown to be effective at controlling European corn borer, a serious insect pest of sweet corn, peppers, and potatoes. It may also hold potential against other pests such as cabbage looper, diamond back moth and grape berry moth.
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Contributors Needed
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The scope of the GreenMethods has also had a focus and commitment to the community of biocontrol and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) users and to the industry as a whole. In other words, this site, while put together and based on The Green Spot and the writings of Mike Cherim, is not about The Green Spot. Rather it’s about all of us. We share a boat so to speak. And the GreenMethods is here to try and help you float the right way up the proverbial S***’s Creek, with both paddles on board on top of it. The Green Spot is probably exemplary of how a company works and thinks about biocontrol in this industry so a lot “general” but useful information can be found here — using us as a benchmark, so to speak.
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