Re: flies in my Gindal Worms!

["Tomoko Schum" <tomokoschum@knology.net>]

Lee,

This is just my speculation, but you might be letting sneaky
fruit flies in when you feed the worms, or the food you use
might be infested with their eggs.

I got my grindal worms infested with white mites.  They are
much larger than the ordinary red kind.  I had a hard time
figuring out where they were coming from, but this
infestation happened with regularity, no matter how
carefully I subcultured the grindals.  I finally found out
just recently that they were coming in with some rolled oats
(Quaker's old fashioned type - the one used for making
oatmeal cookies) that I was feeding to my grindal worms
occasionally.  I suspect the oats were heavily infested with
their eggs since I don't see any mites crawling on the
rolled oats (though it's kinda hard to see minute white
mites on white oat flakes.)

Tomoko

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