Re: To :: I made new gnat catchers

May 1, 2012

Well said! Nature has only one prime purpose, which is to reproduce itself,

that's the reason that insects add up to the largest mobile biomass on the

planet and are the most successful form of life. And they provide the food for

many other lifeforms including humans (directly or indirectly).

Lee

> The important thing to do here is to lighten up about it. Whether you realized

it or not, those tiny critters have probably been in and out of your home

always, but you only notice them now since you have given them a visible source

to be attracted to. The larvae MIGHT have come in on the seeds or growing

medium, but they also might have come in through a screen, or on you when you

came through the door. I have ALWAYS been phobic about bugs in my house, and

prided myself on the fact that I never had bugs of any sort...until I started

growing things indoors. If you grow lovely green things that bugs love, they

WILL be attraced to them, and they WILL get to them one way or another. Now,

that said, there is every likely hood that they did come in via a growing

medium, but even when I have done strictly hydroponics, I have had little bugs

come in. Just remember, bugs are all part of the nature of growing. I used to be

TERRIFIED of bees and wasps, killing off any that dared to come around my house

or yard-now I try to ATTRACT them, since I realize they are important to the

growing process by pollinating, feeding on other bugs that hurt my garden, or

otherwise doing THEIR job in the growth process. I am not saying you should be

HAPPY about gnats flying around, but you should accept that they are part and

parcel of the process, so just putting out your little traps will help control

them, but don't worry about them taking over...they won't if you do what you are

doing. I used to be grossed out by worms too-now I farm them in bins, lol.

>

May 1, 2012

Well, I guess I could live with a few of them flying around (if I HAVE TO), but,

on a positive note, even though I hate bugs and have a phobia about them, I can

get over phobias. I had a very bad dental phobia all of my life. I found a great

dentist who is now my champ and his dental technician loves my sprouts and she's

a facebook friend.

So...if Melody can get over a dental phobia, she can certainly learn to live

with the few gnats that might present themselves.

But no worms. oh no, no worms.

lol

Melody

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