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Gardening with the RHS
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I've Used Parsit Wasps to Control White Fly Populations
The adults feeds on sugar substances. In nature, that would normally be honey dew produced by apheds or other sap sucking insects,. And while looking for nectar, they, by accident, aughtopolinate. So we got these some very numerous microscopic wasps. As gardeners, should we care? Yes, because they naturally limit populations of insects that gardeners normally see as bests. They can also be commercially produced and used as by control agents. I've bought them for use at wisley, and they've been very affect i've used one called ancasia to control the white fly in the vegetables in the greenhouse. It managed to wipe out populations
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