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Problems Printing Our Pages?
If you want to print our pages and find you’re having problems, try clicking the ‘Compatibility View’ button on the very top bar of your browser […]
We’ve always encouraged people to print out our pages if they want to have a hard copy of some of the material on this site for personal or teaching purposes. Our copyright allows this. To facilitate better page printing we use a standards-compliant style sheet specific to a print media- type — it’s activated automatically when you print. Offering this isn’t a common practice, but doing so allows you to print proper pages without having to print stuff like our lengthy navigation menu and other non-content. Up until now this has worked flawlessly.
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Order Now for 2010 Orchard Mason Bees
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 2010. Confused?
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Delphastus Sale Continued
Our latest sale, a discount on the regular price of our whitefly predatory beetle, Delphastus cataliniae, has been very helpful to people since this fall there seems to be an unusually high number of growers reporting troubles with whiteflies. Since this sale has been so useful and utilized, we decided continuing it instead of posting a new sales item would be in the best interest of many.
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Some Interesting Numbers About Landfills
Biocontrol and IPM can be a difficult topic to write about on a regular basis. The science is fairly static — or it seems to be — and most writers we know of tend to do the same thing we do: Rewrite and refresh old material. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Having old stuff in a top position puts it in the hands of newcomers which eat it up voraciously. Moreover, as we age and refine our thinking, the most current draft is usually the best draft. What’s all this lead-in for, you may wonder. You caught us. It’s an excuse to branch out into other environmental topics of possible interest to you. Such as landfills.
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Work Will Soon Begin…
Work will soon begin on our 2010 catalog. Wow, 2010. It seems like we slipped into the new millennium a lot less than a whole ten years ago. But numbers don’t lie, do they? Ten years, and it’ll be our 18th year as a company. Where does all the time go? If you know the answer, please respond, but it’s not the reason for this entry. We have more important things to discuss than the mysterious slippage of time. We here to ask you if you have any requests. Ribbit?
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Starting Your Own Insectary
It’s so easy even a cat can do it. At least according to a cat named Marge. One that just so happens to be a popular writer — and loving companion to one P. Allen Smith, gardening legend. Her cat’s eye perspective is certainly unique. In a recent pallensmith.com article, she relates how she wanted her owner to slow down and relax. To accomplish this she talked him into making an insectary by starting a garden just for bugs — to encourage them to stick around and take care of all the plants so he didn’t have to. Come to find out, it wasn’t that hard to do.
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