Tiny centipedes in house plants - help!
 

On Friday, April 9, 1999 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Bugged wrote:
Hello Rec.Gardens.
I don't normally read or post here, but on other NGs; but I thought
someone could lend their expertise?
We have some houseplants with extra space in their large pots. Last
December we bought some tulip bulbs and planted them in various pots
hoping for some early tulips. Well, some are still growing from the
soil in the pot, and some died. Today we went to remove the ones that
did not rise, and at least one of the pots now has very tiny
"centipedes" in it.
Presumably, these grew from and fed on the dead bulbs (appeared that
way), and are now in the top-most layers of the potted soil.
HELP! There are no other places where they appear in the plant, so we
are not afraid these will attack the stems/branches and leaves of the
plant (rubber tree). However, we are worried the bugs are eating or
will eat the roots. There is little chance the bugs will leave the
pot, as it is large, very deep and the bugs themselves do not like to
be seen.
I know this may sound a bit crazy to some of you who are experienced
gardeners, but we are just getting started. Does anyone have a
suggestion that will not damage the plant?
Please email your responses too if you don't mind - we may not be back
to the newsgroup very soon.
Thanks in advance,
Bugged.

Tiny centipedes in house plants - help!
 

On 6/15/13 4:12 PM, wrote:
On Friday, April 9, 1999 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Bugged wrote:
Hello Rec.Gardens.
I don't normally read or post here, but on other NGs; but I thought
someone could lend their expertise?
We have some houseplants with extra space in their large pots. Last
December we bought some tulip bulbs and planted them in various pots
hoping for some early tulips. Well, some are still growing from the
soil in the pot, and some died. Today we went to remove the ones that
did not rise, and at least one of the pots now has very tiny
"centipedes" in it.
Presumably, these grew from and fed on the dead bulbs (appeared that
way), and are now in the top-most layers of the potted soil.
HELP! There are no other places where they appear in the plant, so we
are not afraid these will attack the stems/branches and leaves of the
plant (rubber tree). However, we are worried the bugs are eating or
will eat the roots. There is little chance the bugs will leave the
pot, as it is large, very deep and the bugs themselves do not like to
be seen.
I know this may sound a bit crazy to some of you who are experienced
gardeners, but we are just getting started. Does anyone have a
suggestion that will not damage the plant?
Please email your responses too if you don't mind - we may not be back
to the newsgroup very soon.
Thanks in advance,
Bugged.


If they really are centipedes, then you should not worry. Centipedes
are carnivorous and eat various insects and other pests.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

Tiny centipedes in house plants - help!
 

David E. Ross wrote:
On 6/15/13 4:12 PM, wrote:
On Friday, April 9, 1999 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Bugged wrote:
Hello Rec.Gardens.
I don't normally read or post here, but on other NGs; but I thought
someone could lend their expertise?
We have some houseplants with extra space in their large pots. Last
December we bought some tulip bulbs and planted them in various pots
hoping for some early tulips. Well, some are still growing from the
soil in the pot, and some died. Today we went to remove the ones
that did not rise, and at least one of the pots now has very tiny
"centipedes" in it.
Presumably, these grew from and fed on the dead bulbs (appeared that
way), and are now in the top-most layers of the potted soil.
HELP! There are no other places where they appear in the plant, so
we are not afraid these will attack the stems/branches and leaves
of the plant (rubber tree). However, we are worried the bugs are
eating or will eat the roots. There is little chance the bugs
will leave the pot, as it is large, very deep and the bugs
themselves do not like to be seen.
I know this may sound a bit crazy to some of you who are experienced
gardeners, but we are just getting started. Does anyone have a
suggestion that will not damage the plant?
Please email your responses too if you don't mind - we may not be
back to the newsgroup very soon.
Thanks in advance,
Bugged.


If they really are centipedes, then you should not worry. Centipedes
are carnivorous and eat various insects and other pests.

But if they eat flesh then they could carry babies away in the night to
nibble them very slowly starting at their tiny pink toes.....

D

Tiny centipedes in house plants - help!
 

Tiny centipedes in house plants - help!
 

On 6/16/2013 6:25 AM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:
snip...
If they really are centipedes, then you should not worry. Centipedes
are carnivorous and eat various insects and other pests.

But if they eat flesh then they could carry babies away in the night to
nibble them very slowly starting at their tiny pink toes.....

D


That is probably dingos you are thinking of...

Tiny centipedes in house plants - help!
 

songbird wrote:
wrote:
On Friday, April 9, 1999 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Bugged wrote:



i suspect that after fourteen years the bugs have
moved on.


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live long and prosper,



songbird

Amazing, I didn't notice that. This is surely a record.

D

Tiny centipedes in house plants - help!
 

David Hare-Scott wrote:
songbird wrote:
wrote:
On Friday, April 9, 1999 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Bugged wrote:

....a long time ago...

Amazing, I didn't notice that. This is surely a record.

i tend to notice when a subject line comes along that
is referenced that i don't have the parent article (keeping
a local archive is handy).

there have been a few others. of course, sometimes it
is a problem with a misconfigured posting host, and there
are ways to spoof, but generally, they are new people who
are replying to old articles because they are coming at
the archive from google groups or some other usenet archival
service.


songbird