On Jun 12, 7:29 am, fanghorn wrote:
>> On Jun 11, 7:08 pm, fanghorn wrote:
>>> Frank
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>>> innews:57a7b9c7-ae2b-4673-97d4-bdb6bae12d78@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.c
>>> om:>
>>>> On Jun 7, 6:58 pm, fanghorn wrote:
>
>>>>> Have you tried ladybugs?
>
>>>> I would, if I could find a subterranean species.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Ok, If you go to the local library, you *should* be able to find a field
> guide to the insects - same people as the Peterson bird books. Try
> looking it up in there. If you can't find such a book, ask a librarian
> about identifying an insect "found in a garden". Of course *don't* say
> where per se.
Very familiar with the Peterson guides, have been since I
was a kid
-- someone was keeping them out *long*
overdue, and that someone was me. Bugs were something
of a hobby with me. Still have my lep collection from
way back in 1970.
