Re: Good Creepy Crawly

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:02:34 -0600
From: "Carlo A. Balistrieri" <cabalist@facstaff.wisc.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: Good Creepy Crawly

At 10:48 AM 3/21/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Last night I noticed a small orange-brownish looking thingy walking
>across the compost of a pot of pygmy sundews. Initially I thought it
>was a spider mite, but rather than nuke it immediately with insecticide
>I watched it for a while. Suddenly it grabbed the head of a fungus gnat
>larva that I hadn't even noticed, pulled it out of the compost and started
>munching away on it. (The fungus gnat larva continued to wriggle even
>when it had been half eaten). So there is something that can be used as
>a biological control for fungus gnat larvae, although I have no idea what
>it is!
>
>Good Growing, NigelH

Hey Nigel, can I have some?

Carlo

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