Re: soil bugs & anole lunch

From: Lester Kallus lkallus at earthlink.net> on 1999.10.29 at 14:08:57(3799) They can be a pest? How? My Alocasia aquino (aka corazon) appears to be thriving but has several of them jumping (or is it flying) around over the soil surface. A pot of A. magnifica longiloba is equally infested. It too appears to be growing well. For that reason I haven't worried about them. Should I? Are they pests only because people don't like them flapping around or are they pests because they damage plants? Too bad about the anoles not getting enough sustenance. I wouldn't want to starve them so will probably have to leave them all in Florida. Les +More At 07:19 PM 10/28/1999 -0500, you wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Lester Kallus >To: ju-bo@msn.com >Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 4:52 PM >Subject: soil bugs & anole lunch > > >Les, >I think these may be algae gnats, fly real slow, breed in the algae/soil, >acn be a pest. Don`t think they will be enough for any self-respecting >Anole, not enough in them. > >Cheers, >Julius > > >I looked in a couple Alocasia pots in my greenhouse today and saw some >little soil bugs - approximately 1-2 mm in size at max. They appeared to >have some wing like structures on their back (it's tough to tell when >they're that small) but didn't buzz around much higher than a few mm. above >the soil level. I can't tell if they were flying or jumping. I didn't see >any on the plants themselves, only on the soil. > >I assume, therefore, that these are some benign soil bugs living off the >organic material in the soil and that they're not harming the plants. > >So here's the question: would these be enough to sustain an anole or two? >I had hoped to keep an anole or some other small lizard in my greenhouse but >am not eager to introduce bugs or to feed them directly. > Les > > > > >

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