creapedout
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Hi,
I bought a fruit fly culture....made 3 other cultures for my mantis egg sac.
Everything was fine until most of the cultures crashed....I was cleaning up and noticed millions of mites on the one culture....I was too creaped out to look at the others.
My setup....plastic cups with coffee filters held on by rubber bands for the fruit flys.
I had the cultures on glue sticky pads and this is how I noticed this beige...looked like cinnamon near the base.
I saw some mites had made it off the sticky pad....they were to the edge of the glue...walking on stuck/dead mites.
So the other cultures...some had crashed but their food was pretty low....I have thrown everything out.
I stored everything on a plywood shelf in my garage.
1) How far do mites travel...is the whole garage, or my house infested? Can they get on hands and clothes and be transferred into the house?
2) Is the plywood shelving unit and everything on it infested?
3) Are the mites on the flies, and therefore in the mantis enclosures?
My kids are severely allergic to everything....and if I brought these into the house...well I feel like moving!!!
Please help!
I have released most of the mantises but have kept like 8 of them. I will explain in another post.
Thanks!
Creaped
I bought a fruit fly culture....made 3 other cultures for my mantis egg sac.
Everything was fine until most of the cultures crashed....I was cleaning up and noticed millions of mites on the one culture....I was too creaped out to look at the others.
My setup....plastic cups with coffee filters held on by rubber bands for the fruit flys.
I had the cultures on glue sticky pads and this is how I noticed this beige...looked like cinnamon near the base.
I saw some mites had made it off the sticky pad....they were to the edge of the glue...walking on stuck/dead mites.
So the other cultures...some had crashed but their food was pretty low....I have thrown everything out.
I stored everything on a plywood shelf in my garage.
1) How far do mites travel...is the whole garage, or my house infested? Can they get on hands and clothes and be transferred into the house?
2) Is the plywood shelving unit and everything on it infested?
3) Are the mites on the flies, and therefore in the mantis enclosures?
My kids are severely allergic to everything....and if I brought these into the house...well I feel like moving!!!
Please help!
I have released most of the mantises but have kept like 8 of them. I will explain in another post.
Thanks!
Creaped