Tip Top Bio-Control – General Grower's Supply

Metaphycus Helvolus - (Parasite)

 

Temperature range
73°– 83° Fahrenheit, 50% Relative Humidity.

Adult
Tiny, gold wasp.

Feeds On
Soft scale. (Those that produce honeydew), such as Purple Scale, Red Scale, Mexican Black, Black, Hemispherical, Nigra, Brown Soft, Citricola and many others. Can be used along with scale parasites and predators.

Shipped
As Adults

Release Rates
1,000 per average greenhouse. 1,000 – 3,000 per acre.

Note: They eat honeydew but don’t like them. Attracted to yellow sticky traps.