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Re: Some kind of bug on top of my plants



"Emil Krey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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. 

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



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