Well things have been a little hectic this week at Rincon-Vitova, with the approaching holiday. All orders for the week were shipped Monday. Everything from my end landed without delay to our customers.
Everything is back to normal availability until Christmas week when we will once again not be importing the more perishable critters. Check the availability list link below, for details. Atheta is limited from Applied Bio-Nomics (our Canadian sister insectary), but then I had a customer who desperately need some. I explained how Atheta was the "Bad Employee of the Month." But she said she’d take whatever she could get. I put 3 units on order for her, thinking there was no way that she would get them. But the following Wednesday sure enough she got them. So just because something says "Limited" or "OK" on the availability report, it isn’t the last word.
Our own production department has been on alert because of the Santa Ana winds. They cause problems with everything from hillside fires to messing with the humidity levels in the lacewing larvae incubating room. Lacewing larval units need warm temperatures with over 50% relative humidity, otherwise the eggs may not hatch. Larvae units arrive to the customer containing a minimum guarantee of 500 living predators. (It’s often much more.) This product saves the Customer from having to hatch the lacewing eggs, plus it is better than putting out a "lacewing egg buffet" for the ants. Lacewing eggs on cards or in bags are sitting food for the ants. And, just because you don’t see the ants, doesn’t mean that they’re not there.
Everything is back to normal availability until Christmas week when we will once again not be importing the more perishable critters. Check the availability list link below, for details. Atheta is limited from Applied Bio-Nomics (our Canadian sister insectary), but then I had a customer who desperately need some. I explained how Atheta was the "Bad Employee of the Month." But she said she’d take whatever she could get. I put 3 units on order for her, thinking there was no way that she would get them. But the following Wednesday sure enough she got them. So just because something says "Limited" or "OK" on the availability report, it isn’t the last word.
Our own production department has been on alert because of the Santa Ana winds. They cause problems with everything from hillside fires to messing with the humidity levels in the lacewing larvae incubating room. Lacewing larval units need warm temperatures with over 50% relative humidity, otherwise the eggs may not hatch. Larvae units arrive to the customer containing a minimum guarantee of 500 living predators. (It’s often much more.) This product saves the Customer from having to hatch the lacewing eggs, plus it is better than putting out a "lacewing egg buffet" for the ants. Lacewing eggs on cards or in bags are sitting food for the ants. And, just because you don’t see the ants, doesn’t mean that they’re not there.
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