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Feeding plants flies for protein using soapy water
How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?
Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants? What is it about soapy water that knocks house flies right out of the air? https://s10.postimg.org/t0p04p0h5/image.jpg In case you want to know why, I use the flies to feed the plants. https://s10.postimg.org/qw4n3mlzt/image.jpg I'd rather not use soap (for the plants), but plain water doesn't work. https://s10.postimg.org/gytmal1jd/image.jpg How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly? Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants? |
Feeding plants flies for protein using soapy water
On 12/30/2017 4:52 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly? Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants? What is it about soapy water that knocks house flies right out of the air? https://s10.postimg.org/t0p04p0h5/image.jpg In case you want to know why, I use the flies to feed the plants. https://s10.postimg.org/qw4n3mlzt/image.jpg I'd rather not use soap (for the plants), but plain water doesn't work. https://s10.postimg.org/gytmal1jd/image.jpg How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly? Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants? Unlike plain water, which flies can shed, soapy water truly wets them. The added weight of water makes them too heavy to fly. A slight amount of soap will not harm plants. I have used a trace of soap in water as a wetting agent to moisten potting mix that has become bone dry. I also mix a generouse squirt of liquid soap with water-based sprays when applying insecticides or herbicides to ensure the target plants are indeed wet by the spray. I use the cheapest liquid dish detergent that I can find that does not have added scents. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean, see http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary |
Feeding plants flies for protein using soapy water
Given , Dan Jenkins
wrote: How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly? Did you add an acid? https://www.getridoffliesguide.com/h...f-horse-flies/ Dish soap + vinegar https://www.hunker.com/13405752/how-...with-dish-soap Antibacterial soap + cider https://youtu.be/m6m9xzhphLs Non antibacterial Dawn dish detergent + water http://homeguides.sfgate.com/soapy-w...ies-77788.html Two percent soapy water with no citric acid http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...h-a-Vengeance/ Dish soap + baking soda + vinegar --- このEメールはアバスト アンチウイルスによりウイルスス* ンされています。 https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
Feeding plants flies for protein using soapy water
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:52:46 +0000 (UTC), Dan Jenkins
wrote: How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly? Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants? What is it about soapy water that knocks house flies right out of the air? https://s10.postimg.org/t0p04p0h5/image.jpg In case you want to know why, I use the flies to feed the plants. https://s10.postimg.org/qw4n3mlzt/image.jpg I'd rather not use soap (for the plants), but plain water doesn't work. https://s10.postimg.org/gytmal1jd/image.jpg How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly? The can't fly with soapy wings. Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants? Bad. You have Venus Fly Trap plants. Still immature. Older ones will have an orange center in the trap. The plants produce a scent attraction; creatures like flies, even ants. I'd feed them via the potting soil / moss, early on. Set them in a warm window sill and let them catch flies when the are ready. One the trap closes it will days before it opens (feeding of the protien) Have you tried a fly-swatter just to kill and collect proteins?" |
Feeding plants flies for protein using soapy water
On 12/30/2017 04:52 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly? Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants? What is it about soapy water that knocks house flies right out of the air? https://s10.postimg.org/t0p04p0h5/image.jpg In case you want to know why, I use the flies to feed the plants. https://s10.postimg.org/qw4n3mlzt/image.jpg I'd rather not use soap (for the plants), but plain water doesn't work. https://s10.postimg.org/gytmal1jd/image.jpg How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly? Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants? Hi Dan, I have a sprayer with soapy (disk soap) water that I use to shoot down flies and nail spiders with around the house. insects do not have lungs. Instead their bodies are riddled with tubes to the outside. The insects movement forces air in and out. These tubes are too small for the surface tension of water to penetrate. The way soapy water works is that is lowers the surface tension of water so that it goes down their breathing tubes. The little buggers literally drown. Insecticidal soap is another word for expensive dish soap, expensive shampoo, or just plain old sodium laurel sulfate. All the same stuff. Soap won't hurt plants. -T |
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