I actually introduced hypoapsis miles mites into my worm bins. After 10 days they were numerous and fat. They are now my primary food source for my ladybug enclosure. I just take a chunk of detritus and place it in my ladybug enclosure until its mostly cleaned out of mites then I put the detritus back into the worm bin. Working great soo far.
If you want to discern between millipedes and centipedes - look at their names. Milli roughly means thousand. Centi refers to hundred. We used to call millipedes 'thousand leggers' and centipedes 'hundred leggers.'
Hope y'all realize how great these vids are and are appreciated. I believe that my tote worm bin needed more air so I drilled the holes in the lid slightly bigger to 1/4" and BINGO. The BSF showed up, but oddly only in the one bin. Please, no larvae to follow. May adhere some bug screen to the underside of the lids. Live long and prosper.
Another excellent presentation guys!! These are invaluable, especially as someone who's new to all this!! Last time in our outdoor bin there was an explosion of what now looks like pot worms. We've been away for a couple of weeks but we'll check it out tomorrow. Thanks again boys !! Appreciate the info :) Cheers J&C Btw- could only see half on the "ticker" scrolling across the bottom. Probably on our end as we watch on TV but thought you'd wanna know.
Great chat. So the large reddish rice grain shaped cocoons are fruit flys larva? I get them in my worm-bag and my bokashi bins. Just want yo make sure I’m targeting them correctly.
Same with me. I noticed though when I try to keep the least amount of moisture( that’s safe for the worms) it reduces the flies. In fact, I only seen maybe 5 this past week verses hundreds a month ago
what about rove beetles i have a urban worm bin and everything was in check up until i started noticing more and more rove beetles spawning in and i made sure they weren't fruit/fungas nats should i be concerned about this i know rove beetles are beneficial isects but it feels like there so many when i unzip my bin they just start flying out 30-50 at a time and when i inspect my bin i can see them all piled together on one corner of the bin and i see them also throughout the bin at first i wasnt worried but recently it just feels like theres alot more than usual. Can this be a problem? also when they fly out of my bin i have my bin in my indoor garden and i see them land on my plants/pots and start feeding off the fungas nats i had before the rove beetles came and i also had one plant with spider mites and the rove beetles eradicated those spider mites as well so im not worried about them flying out cause they do help in my garden but is there a thing of too many rove beetles in a worm bin?
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I don't bother with pests as long as they aren't eating the worms themselves. I figure they are helping compost the material, while adding biology to the compost. My vermicompost is used outdoors, so if im introducing pests to my garden, im attracting predators.
