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Group: alt.drugs.pot.cultivation · Group Profile
Author: FrankFrank Date: Jun 11, 2008 18:50
On Jun 11, 7:08 pm, fanghorn wrote:
>> On Jun 7, 6:58 pm, fanghorn wrote:
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>>> Have you tried ladybugs?
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>> I would, if I could find a subterranean species.
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> Did you look at samples of one from both places under magnification to
> ensure that they *are* the same creature? I frankly doubt it.
Radio Shack pocket microscope. Wish I had better,
but gotta use what I gotta use. "Slide" was two
pieces of clear mylar packing tape stuck together
with the *extremely* unfortunate mites entombed
in between.
Trapped mites were large, tan, no spots, long legs,
fast moving, *all* activity confined to soil, not foliage.
Looked a *lot* like predatory hypoaspis mites (good guys)
according to what I can dig up on Google web and image
searches. If this is the case, it's whatever they're eating
that's giving me problems
-- I suspect fungus gnats.
The sticky traps I bought today will give me the answer,
in which case it's a shot of fresh BtI for everyone.
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