[CH] beneficial wasps

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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:45:39 -0500
From: "Byron Bromley" <Byron.Bromley@gsd-co.com>
Subject: [CH] Yellow traps

>"Keith Stephenson"
>Subject: Re: [CH] Whiteflies

>Least toxic (& possibly cheapest) way is good >old fashioned sticky
flypaper,
>in the UK we can buy special yellow (whitefly love >the colour yellow)
>flypapers, dangle them right down in the foliage >of the plants, works for
>tomatoes, should work for peppers.

>Also, you can use a biological control, a type of >parasitic wasp which
lays
>its eggs in the whitefly 'maggot', this has to be r>eleased BEFORE the
>whitefly are a problem.

Keith

Since there are many different parascitic wasp, could you be more specific
on this one. I know of about 10, none of those listed for whiteflies.

In the IPM circles, Yellow Sticky cards are used as monitors, to determine
when to spray.

RE

UCONN
http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/ipm/

Look up whiteflies.

Byron

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