Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:07:02 -0400 From: Kit Halsted <kit@kithalsted.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2358$foo@default> Subject: Utric VS Mosquitoes, was Re:U. inflata as weed
On 8/4/00, Barry Meyers-Rice wrote:
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>
>4)Mosquito abatement---people have tried all sorts of ways to get rid of
> mosquitos. I'm sure I read, a long time ago, an article about someone,
> somewhere, trying to use Utricularia as mosquito abatement (by
> having them eat the larvae). It didn't work. Anyone have this
> reference? I'd dearly love to get it.
Sorry to take this off on a tangent, and i don't have the reference,
but I'm about to try this on a small scale in New York. What with the
West Nile virus & all, it seems like a good idea (and a good excuse
to get another cp). Any idea why it didn't work?
(I am, BTW, introducing the Utricularia into a container in my yard,
not dumping it into a lake or the East River.)
-Kit
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