|
Post by adelea on Feb 5, 2014 21:23:09 GMT
I have tried drowning and found it useless, but when I take my plant to my greenhouse (as my plants are divided between where I am for uni and dads place abit north) they are eaten by other insects.
|
|
coline
Full Member
Life's essence: patience
Posts: 484
|
Post by coline on Feb 6, 2014 0:15:44 GMT
what is that approach?
|
|
|
Post by adelea on Feb 6, 2014 1:02:56 GMT
I don't know, I know I have a high assasin bug and predatory thrip population in the greenhouse, perhaps they are the reason, but after a day or 2 an infested pot will have very few, if any, aphids, thrips, mealy bugs or snails left, and they don't seem to spread onto the other plants either. I also have very few ants in my greenhouse, which is odd because there used to be colonies in there that the drosera and neps loved, but I have not seen an ant in the greenhouse in months, but they are out everywhere in the sourounding paddock. I also have alot of moth that have moved in, but this happens every couple months, swarms of moth will come in then after a few days they will all go/be eaten, the ampullaria and mirabilis nail them but the other neps catch very few, I have also noticed that the assasin bug are rarly caught and can even walk over a few of the drosera and not get caught (e.g. spathulata, adelae and indica). All of these insects are natives, stick insect are another that I see now and then, but very few praying mantis ever come in, but they are prolific around the property.
|
|
|
Post by sykosarah on Feb 6, 2014 15:23:04 GMT
Ants get wise after a while. If a certain area is traveled but no ants come back with food, the other ants will not go to that area.
|
|
coline
Full Member
Life's essence: patience
Posts: 484
|
Post by coline on Feb 9, 2014 12:14:52 GMT
That is precisely what they do, it was a fenomena I observed when I moved to my new house, here ants are in every single house and in such numbers, no sugar or food may be left unnatented for even 30 minutes, and at my new house they took 2 months to start appearing. And at my greenhouse it has not been an exception, only that ants here like to make their nests beneath flower pots with dirt, and even some big sarracenia pots (even with a water table below!) so they are all the place there, and I think they live upon the dead bees that normally occur outside my stingless bee hives that are inside the greenhouse (bees are smart and do not fall in any CP!) other than that, there is such a big number of tiny flies and bugs all my plants are always full of pray, since my greenhouse is only a plastic roof with open walls with chicken coop wire mesh I even get from time to time butterflies trapped inside. My nepenthes are under my trees, so that means, full pitches all the time!
|
|