Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Discjuggler Keeps Telling Me To Reboot



First the heat and now the rain ... total there are always things that affect climate worms. The good news is that rain can serve you for the worm, but you have to dip a little if you do not bring umbrella.

One of the things you have is rain water that is ideal for the earthworms. Unlike the one you use, especially if running water is totally pure rain. Sure you can bring some of the little things that we threw to the air, but well, that we can not avoid.

However, the fact that you leave your cribs Vermiculture uncovered a while ago with clean water and as they like. In addition, the worms are "programmed " to be born when it's raining (that's his natural life cycle), so you're not doing any harm.

If you do, just remember that the cradles of Vermiculture are very "soft " for rain, so, if large droplets, you can leave a minefield for worms. The simplest ways to avoid this is to use newspaper (even looks like they did for worm). Just put it as cover and let it be. When wet, the newspaper will pass the water, but absorb the " shock "of large water drops.

The best is to use mosquito netting. It's more work but just need to put as cover a few inches of Vermiculture. Drops, falling, almost exploding, dropping a spray to give everything to earthworms and highly oxygenated water that did not complain that they lack air.

Finally, we must use the rain for something, not just as an excuse to be at home watching TV. If you're going to start a new Vermiculture, that's better than letting the rain soak your new material and have colonies of bacteria to multiply much more.

Well, I can not do anything else for these worms, I'll to watch TV ...

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Whatformula Does Wic Give

La Mosca Soldado, A Tenant More Cradle Of Worms In Your Care With

When you do the worm, get a bunch of little animals, attracted by the trash that you put the worms. Although the vast majority do not affect your Vermiculture, it can become a problem if they become a pest, the only ones who want them to be pests are worms.

Finally, one of the nosy you'll see in your lombricario are soldier fly larvae. These are similar to larvae of flies (I assume you've seen them) and do nothing damage to compete for food. The soldier fly larvae have some advantages:

  • They eat food that is not yet ready to earthworms
  • Worms can take advantage of their stool (Yuk!, But you want, they like the food " processed ")
  • If I put a" ladder "was out alone in the cradle of worms
  • Adults will get to jump to the flies, so when there are fewer soldiers present.

However, the fly soldier has a problem and competition for food. Unlike earthworms, which are slow, the fly is very aggressive soldier for food and the worms are normally kept on the sidelines.

This can lead to your worms will starve or emigrate for lack of food, especially if you let all the new food very much in the area. Not good. It is noteworthy that flies are not so bad, do not carry parasites like the others and, in some places, have been considered as an alternative to process organic waste . Will not know how those waves, but it is worth having more options, especially if you are quick to process and can serve as food for other animals.

Finally, the soldier fly can become a problem, but it is relatively easy to solve:

bury more food. The soldier fly larvae are more superficial than the worms. When I dig in cribs rarely find myself soldier fly larvae in the background, the vast majority are on the surface.

Cover your crib. The adult is relatively large, if you cover your bed with mosquito netting or something, can not lay eggs. Moreover can, but you want, so things are. Stir

your Vermiculture material. Although many people say they do not stir the material because the worms are stressed, I think it's more stress than they are about your eating larvotas food. When you stop stirring all the food ready for earthworms in areas where they can achieve and there is no problem with you being starved as larvae eat just what was up.


The soldier fly is not harmful but it can be a problem. This is presented (at least in my case) when you include plenty of fruit in the birthplace of worms. It is best to cover your cradle and prevent the larvae are given canned.

Sure you can put a "cradle" of soldiers, you more or less the same as a cradle of worm, but worms (worm but would not be good, here you can buy "quesadillas" potato ...) . If you arrive the solder, will eat all the fruit and leave you ready material for your worms. Do not wait years for the compost.

soldier flies need a dark, dry Lugas pupating, so I just Put a ladder to the edge of his crib and leave alone. A full swing, right?

The larvae of many things will always be part of the biomass of your Vermiculture, so you have to learn to identify and live with them. Although it has a while, I leave a post, Mosca Soldado To Aquaponics, with a picture of soldier fly larvae and a perspective from aquaponics.