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Re: luplins and delphinims from seed

At 03:10 PM 3/29/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Dear seed-listers,
>
>I have an emergency situation here in my basement.  I have started 
>probably 8 flats of annuals and perennials, and they all look great, I 
>get great germination, and then all of a sudden, one day I'll look in and 
>all of the new leaves will be chewed off, and little stems left standing.
>
>I know I have fungus gnats, but I thought that since it was the larvae 
>that caused the damage, that the problem will happen at the soil line.
>
>I use all new soil, vermiculite and perlite, and a little bit of sphagnum 
>moss.  I washed my pots out with lysol.
>
>Can you give me an idea of what might be happening?  I'm tired of losing 
>all my seed!!
>
>Thanks
>
>Kathleen Moran, Ed.D.			Gardening at:
>Center for Learning and Assessment	Amherst, MA
>Cambridge College			Zone 5 
>Springfield, MA				Minimum temp: -15
>
>
>
Kathleen,
Any chance you have crickets in your basement? Here in East TN we have
camel crickets in every basement. Usually just a minor pest, but they will
eat newly germinated seedlings. I've experienced the same problem you
describe, and found that the only solution is to grow my very young
seedlings in APS systems that have plastic domes. The domes can be removed
after the seedlings get some growth on them; the crickets seem to prefer
newly germinated material.>
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