Re: CULT: Bugs
From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
>If you consult the "experts" you will be told that the little critters won't
>eat a rhizome. However, a few years ago, one of my first "major" purchases
>at our bearded auction was Kasperek's BABOONS BOTTOM. This was one of
>several that I bought. All the others were doing quite wonderfully. I
>noticed that this one didn't seem to be going any where. When I looked
>inside the entire rhizome was gone from the center out and in its place were
>scads of these little bugs. I normally don't use chemicals but this was the
>last straw. If I remember correctly the same type of treatment that can be
>used for earwigs will succussfully get rid of the little critters.
Are you sure they were eating live tissue and not just cleaning out what
was dead already?
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
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