President of Applied Bio-nomics Ltd. Director of ANBP and member of NAPPO Biological Control Panel. ASEV professional winemaker.
Victoria, BC
Joined January 2011
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Messi can’t avoid the Whitecaps forever. He will have to play us in the finals. And he will probably regret missing the experience of today’s match.# VWFC
Wonderful IOBC meeting in Brest. Excellent speakers and posters. And, very encouraging to see all of the young first timers contributing significantly.
Saveol is a model cooperative with foreward thinking management.
The Poinsettia season is off and running. Early response is looking good, but we need more feedback.
Current recommendations are for the low rate of 1 Delphastus per square meter, spread over 3 introductions, 2 weeks apart.
Starting now.
And, don’t forget the fallacis!
Our hearts are with UVM as they recover from the nasty flooding.
Extremes seem to be the new normal.
Now that Poinsettia time is rolling, please don’t forget to prevent the Lewis mite. Last year a few were badly surprised! Prevention is a single application of fallacis, at just 2 mites per square meter. Best done in propagation. Prevention is what BioControl is all about.
Sorry for the long absence.
Keep a close eye on efficacy as the average temperature drops. Stored Encarsia can’t keep up with Greenhouse whitefly below 18.6C😱. Nonstored Encarsia is good down to 10 C and Delphastus is good down to 10 C also
Anystis has united the world. Researchers from numerous States and Nations are now sequencing collected samples, and using electron microscopy to identify their keys.
It turns out that they actually do have eyes at the back of their “head”.
Thanks Cheryl!
Soccer Canada needs to do the honourable thing and ask all of its Directors to resign today.
The Provincial Soccer Assns should have an emergency Zoom and appoint a temporary set of Directors to “right the ship”#CanadaSoccer #CanMNT
Here is my annual tweet; Anystis is proving to be a winner thanks to Taro, Vineland, and Adam.
The new “adult only” package releases hungry, fecund, nasty females who have their running shoes laced up.
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We lost a champion of Biological Control on the weekend. John, owner of Evergreen Growers in Oregon passed away with his wife Olli, children and grandchildren at his side.
John embraced BioControl and through his association with the OAN and later, the ANBP strongly advocated.
A warning to motorcycles Northbound on the Fraser Canyon.
There appears to be loose gravel at the JackAss Summit.
I just had a long conversation with 911. The confusion was that there had just been one there about an hour earlier.
A new technique we are playing with is considering pests, as a symptom. This is not only effective but it also ends up saving a lot of bios, and money, as it treats the “disease” rather than the symptoms.
Spider mites are a symptom of plant stress.
Aphids related to soft growth.
The “nuclear winter” that we saw in Cascadia did more than drive the thrips and the aphids indoors rapidly, it has caused significant mold/mildew activity in many different crops and situations. Beware!
A clear, concise framework. Words of wisdom. Hopefully, all of the World Leaders have at least heard this. Expecting some of them to understand this may be asking too much, however.
We are rethinking the timing of fallacis on hops. The new target timing is at the training stage, when the strings are tied. In the Willamette valley, May 1. This is 3 weeks earlier than our original timing. Still 10,000 per acre.
