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Testing your microbial products

What’s the first thing you do with your shipments of predatory mites, parasitoids and predators when you receive them? You probably check to see if these natural enemies are alive before you put them out in the crop.

Now Albert Grimm (Jeffries Greenhouses) and Sarah Jandricic have come up with a way to check if many of your microbial products are still viable, too.

"We’re still in the process of testing these methods for all microbial products, so please consider this preliminary. Right now, we know this works for Beauveria and Metarhizium-based products only (e.g. BotaniGard, BioCeres and Met52). I’m hoping to put the methods up for more products in December," says Jandricic

Click here to read the complete article at www.onfloriculture.worldpress.com.
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