Re: RE: Supplemental Feed

From: Dave Evans (T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU)
Date: Mon Mar 22 1999 - 16:00:00 PST


Date:    Mon, 22 Mar 99 19:00 EST
From: Dave Evans                           <T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg899$foo@default>
Subject: Re: RE: Supplemental Feed

Deat CW lee,

> The third thing I have used are ...... CRICKETS. Do a search....
> .... YUMMY YUMMY for my plants and YEAH YEAH for my room mates and I.
> MUCH harder to handle than dried fish food as you can imagine. Being the
> Mr. Insensitive person I am, I usually drown the crickets before putting
> them into the pitchers. I almost break a tear watching them drown but
> nevertheless, dinner time for Neps. Keep in mind when you are drowning a
> cricket, they can "hold" their breaths for a long time with air bubbles
> trapped in their wings and exoskeleton of the crickets. Keep them
> underwater until they start struggling and give the drowning twitch to
> ensure they are dead. Even then, they still sometimes revive while I'm
> trying to stuff them into a pitcher I know this is kinda cruel but because
> I love my plants and they are grown indoor, I can't afford to let any of
> them to escape!!

   Uh, it's like, why don't you just put them in the freezer to kill
them? It would much easier and much less gruesome.

Dave Evans



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