Re: Nepenthes and ants

From: Chris Teichreb (cjteichr@sfu.ca)
Date: Sun Dec 13 1998 - 13:40:01 PST


Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 13:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Teichreb <cjteichr@sfu.ca>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg3964$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Nepenthes and ants

Hi Ed,

   I believe Peter D'Amato talked about this in his book. He noted the
main drawback is that ants will farm scale and aphids, otherwise, it may
work quite well! Good luck.

Chris

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, BlackNet Runner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I had an interesting idea today (not original tho) that was growing
> nepenthes and an ant colony in the same container, i.e. self substaining
> :) Dunno about how practical this would be or how feasible. Curious to
> know if anyone has tried or is doing this?
>
> Ed
>
>
>

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Chris Teichreb
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.

cjteichr@sfu.ca
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