Re: Live Black worms and other cultures...

["Cory and Susanne Williamson" <webwill@infinet.net>]

Actually- bloodworms are non biting midge fly larvae (Order Diptera (flies)
Family Chironomidae).

Incidentally they make excellent trout food- and excellent tasting trout.

Cory Williamson

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Eaton <peaton@hotmail.com>
To: <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Sent: February 21, 2000 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Live Black worms and other cultures...


> >From reading the old posts on The Krib, they are different.  Bloodworms
are
> actually a mosquito larvae of some sort that has shown up in my mosquito
> larvae buckets.  Blackworms, Lumbriculus variegatus, are completely
> different in their look as well as the fact they don't go through a
> metamorphic phase like the bloodworms.  (I read all that on The Krib as
> well.)
>
> Phil Eaton
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "William Vannerson" <William_Vannerson@ama-assn.org>
>
> There's been an exhaustive thread on the Killie Talk list about allergies,
> which I suffer from too, to frozen and freeze-dried bloodworms.  But I
> haven't noticed any ill effect from live black worms.  Are they the same
or
> different?
>
> Bill Vannerson
> McHenry, IL
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/william_vannerson
>
>
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