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RE: worm farm?
Hi folks,
First of all thanks for the replies which you are sending me.
I response to the fly paper suggestion. I was able to get some. Of the two
white worm test cultures, one has stopped producing midges. Possibly due to
the cold. The second is still producing the flies. It has produced at least
20 new bugs in the past 48 hours. One midge got stuck 15 minutes after I
taped the fly paper under the container lid. The others are still doing
fine. The midges still hang out on the lid just not on the fly paper. It
was a brilliant idea, the midges are just too stupid to appreciate it.
As far as yeast goes. I feed only powdered oatmeal or now whole wheat flour
mixed with sugar.
It looks like the midge grubs eat the exact same food as the worms. Starve
the grubs and you will starve the worms or worse yet cause the midge larvae
to eat the worms. I have no mites. Mites can not live in a synthetic media
culture.
Flooding the culture for less than 24 hours killed neither the worms nor the
midges. Between 24 and 48 hours most of the worms and most of the midges
were killed. After 48 hours, all of the worms and 99.9% of the midges were
dead. This idea was not entirely successful. How would soap impact this
equation? Boiling the media in water mixed with Clorox bleach kills all of
the Midges but it doesn't appear to do much for the worms general
well-being.
C'mon folks, keep the suggestions coming. These bugs may be tough, but we
are smarter....right?
Happy New Year,
-RJ-
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
Behalf Of Frauley Elson
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 3:57 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: worm farm?
Hi,
I tried it here, and it did next to nothing to the mites. It did give a
bad odor. Smelled like my grandmother's friends coming out of the Church
bingo on an early warm day of Spring, it did.
I was able to pinpoint yeast I was adding to the bread as a major factor
in mite production. I stopped using it, flooded the cultures with soapy
water, then started new cultures with the surviving worms. I've been
mite-free for two months now.
-Gary Elson
PS For the record, above is my new e-mail address.
Jerry Leong wrote:
>
> A few years ago, there was an article in Practical Fishkeeping about
> culturing white worms. I don't have the article in front of me, but as
> I recall, the author suggested placing paradichlorobenzene crystals
> (mothball crystals) on a piece of aluminum foil in a corner of the
> container to rid the culture of mites.
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