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From: fox@jade.austin.asc.slb.com (Jim Fox)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Verticillium // Encarsia formosa
Date: 17 Jun 1994 21:24:35 GMT
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In-reply-to: klier@cobra.uni.edu's message of 16 Jun 94 17:31:33 -0500


In article <1994Jun16.173133.28727@cobra.uni.edu> klier@cobra.uni.edu writes:

> (Do you know a source for the encarsia formosa whitefly parasite?)
> 
> 
>     Not offhand... I do have a listing of several possibilities... no
>     phones or email, alas.  Some of the big greenhouses around here
>     will order them for you.
> ...

Here's another supplier of Encarsia formosa.

Biofac, Inc., lists E. formosa in their 1994 price list:

  Item 131, 1000 for $14.00 (plus shipping)
  "Whitefly parasite--parasitic wasp parasitizes larvae and pupae.
  Field or greenhouse use ok."

  Biofac, Inc.
  P.O. Box 87
  Mathis, TX   78368
  800/233-4914
  512/547-3259
  512/547-9660 (FAX)

I learned about Biofac from the (recently discussed here) PBS show
"The New Garden."  They've been a reliable supplier of lacewing
larvae, ladybugs, Phytoseiulus persimilis (spider mite predators) and
[less successfully] Pyemotes tritici (fire ant parasite) for me for a
couple of years.

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Jim Fox (jfox@slb.com, fox@austin.asc.slb.com)
Schlumberger Austin Systems Center
1 512 331 3295
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Jim Fox (jfox@slb.com, fox@austin.asc.slb.com)
Schlumberger Austin Systems Center
1 512 331 3295



