Re: Some kind of bug on top of my plants

Mean_Chlorine wrote:
> "Emil Krey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> > I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of bugs on
> > top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of the
> > aquarium. 
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> They're springtails, members of the order Collembola, a type of very
> primitive wingless insects. Very common. They feed on decaying plant
> matter. I'm afraid I have no clever way of getting rid of them

Sounds crazy but a blowtorch on the low setting (just a lazy yellow 
flame). Just run it quickly over the surface of the water. The plants 
won't get hurt because they have sutch a high water content. IIRC 
springtails don't really hurt anything... aphids on teh other hand ...