That is an entomobryid springtail. They are cute. Undoubtedly it is doing quite fine. It is looking fat and sassy from cleaning your plants and potting media of fungal mycelia, algae, moss protonemata, bacteria, and decaying organic materials. Its faeces will do wonders for cycling nutrients to the Dracula.
If it is a "he", there will not be any eggs. If you really must annihilate the little beast, squish him. If you have a lot of them, then things are too wet, too rotted, and predators were killed off. Orthene will not do much good, rather drench the media with malathion or cyfluthrin (Tempo), or to be cheap, use plain old isopropyl alcohol mixed with a little liquid dish detergent. Paul On Jan 6, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Schnitz wrote: > Anyone recognize this bug? Looks like he is laying eggs, sticking > straight up out of my plant. That's his feelers on the right. Has > legs on the forward half of his body. This is a Dracula cordobae. > Picture taken thru a microscope. Will use some Orthene at the > roots today or tomarrow. > http://www.pbase.com/schnitz/image/54454074/large > Cynthia, Prescott, AZ > _______________________________________________ > the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) > [email protected] > http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
