Dart Den

It would be easy to raise 4-6 Aphid cultures in a humidity controlled aquarium, wouldn't it ?

Move the decimal point a couple times and you have my interest.

yeah, that would be cool to try for 20-30 of bangin' cx's at one time - to see what kind of feeder effect you could have on the entire collection. I'm going to give em a try at some point, just to see how I do with them.

It's possible that humidity could be an issue, but to be honest I've never had much of a problem with it. Usually the problems are temperature - too high = poor quality wilting plants and very few aphids, or cultures only produce one yielld, or too many peas added to a culture/too wet culture = rotten peas and a bad smell.

15C, moist but not wet tissue paper at the bottom and a single layer of peas and you can't go wrong. Should get two good yields from a culture each of more biomass than you would get from similar sized mel culture.

(I'm not lobbying for the pea-grower's alliance by the way - just putting the info out there for anyone who wants to try!!)

Nick

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(I'm not lobbying for the pea-grower's alliance by the way - just putting the info out there for anyone who wants to try!!)

Nick

But maybe you are a lobbyist against American pea-growers and hope we all start producing these little terrors to quash our much needed pea production here Dr. Nick. If that is your real name. :lol:

Busted....

Remember the spinach salmonella thing? He he he..... I'll have to try again with BSE some time - you guys were right onto that ;-)

Aphids!