Do you or someone you know need Integrated PEst Management help (especially in the #Cannabis and #hemp realm)? #Zenthanol Patreon is live!
I look forward to helping as many as possible with good references for holistic, ecological techniques!
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Whitefly (#Aleyrodidae) like the Silverleaf Whitefly complex #Bemisia#tabaci are vectors of the destructive agricultural pest Broad Mite, #Polyphagotarsonemus#latus. Their wax attracts the mites and induces latching behavior. Learn more on #Zenthanol!
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The next IPM FAQ video series for YouTube channel #Zenthanol will encompass October and November! If you have Integrated Pest Management questions, send them to me on Twitter (@synchangel), on Instagram (@synchangel), or on my YouTube channel community page.
Great upcoming talk by @krushnamegh Kunte @FloridaMuseum McGuire Center talk on the genetics of butterflies and mimicry next Tuesday! Talk is via zoom, so anyone can attend!
When startled or attacked, inchworms will bungee off their host plant and suspend themselves on a silk thread. Sometimes a parasitoid wasp will follow the silk thread and attack the inchworm in midair, where it can't properly defend itself
Ever heard of an Armyworm? Here in Southern California we often get the Western Yellow-striped Armyworm #Spodoptera#praefica which looks pretty identical to other sister species like #ornithogalli as larvae. These generalists are agricultural pests!
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It's become popular in some agricultural circles to assert that insects cannot feed on high brix plants because the sugar cannot be processed. This excerpt from an upcoming #Zenthanol video on insect digestion details these assertions more and why they're fundamentally wrong.
@xBeast1Modex @JessieTweeting These are Japanese Beetles #Popillia#japonica. They and their relatives defoliate all kinds of plants as adults and are a common agricultural pest.
I'm fielding questions for the August IPM FAQ video on YouTube channel #Zenthanol! Post your extremely dire or totally banal Integrated Pest Management questions. I will be more likely to respond to questions I have not already answered. Thanks to all the past commenters in July!
Check out the founder of #Zenthanol Consulting @synchangel and the President of the Cannabis Horticultural Association speak about using banker pepper plants in Cannabis Cultivation https://t.co/3UWMMW8UMK
At 1300 PDT I will be speaking about a Explosive Ember cultivar pepper banker project with @pcervieri on the Future Cannabis Project YouTube channel. Integrating ornamental peppers sustains pollen-feeding biocontrol agents such as #Amblyseius#swirskii and #Neoseiulus#cucumeris
Do you use biocontrol agents like #Amblyseius#swirskii and #Neoseiulus#cucumeris? These predatory mites feed on many pests as well as pollen! Their populations can be sustained and increased with banker plants, learn on YouTube channel #Zenthanol!
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Learn how to increase the population and sustainment of Type III 🕷️ predatory mites like #Amblyseius#swirskii and #Neoseiulus#cucumeris On YouTube channel #Zenthanol with this ornamental banker pepper video! 1,200 on one plant! https://t.co/JWFVB5qjnh
Who are the #Panchelicerata? They are all the organisms with #chelicerae. Like the #Arachnomorpha. For my #Cannabis cultivating friends, I made a video series about IPM and included arthropod evolution! https://t.co/mGMYW2bAxY