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Old 26-11-2003, 07:13 PM
Donovan N
 
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Default Some kind of bug on top of my plants

Mean_Chlorine wrote:
"Emil Krey" wrote in message ...

I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of bugs on
top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of the
aquarium.



They're springtails, members of the order Collembola, a type of very
primitive wingless insects. Very common. They feed on decaying plant
matter. I'm afraid I have no clever way of getting rid of them


Sounds crazy but a blowtorch on the low setting (just a lazy yellow
flame). Just run it quickly over the surface of the water. The plants
won't get hurt because they have sutch a high water content. IIRC
springtails don't really hurt anything... aphids on teh other hand ...