Hi. This is interesting. Aside from some 'toxic shock' as the wigglers
absorbed colloid and lost their 'helpful' or 'unhelpful' flora and fauna,
which might be a factor if the little beggars are in poor condition
already... my wife suggests that you might have simply starved most of them
by killing off their food supply, the plankton-sized critters. DelAt
08:29 AM 08/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Silver List:
> I did a second experiment on mosquito larva. The first was more a home
>school project for my 12 year old. He put the electrodes into the same
>water the larva was in and only killed the ones that touched the electrode
>which was only kept in the water for a couple minutes. After a couple hours
>sitting without the electrode all the mosquitos died. I wrote about that to
>the silver list and everyone seemed surprised and had questions.
> So I varied the experiment doing it a second time. This time I scoped
>up 50 to 75 larva into a glass bowl, left them in their pond water and just
>poured a pint of CS into 3 quarts of pond water. Nothing happened for 4
>hours so we added another pint of CS. About 5 hours later they started to
>die. I left them overnight and this morning there are only a few left
>alive. Less than 10% are still alive. That is about a 90% die off
>overnight by just adding CS water to pond water with larva in it. The dead
>larva tend to concregate in clumps at the top of the water. Kind of like
>misery loves company, they all gathered together in a sick and dying death
>throes.
> This is a simple enough experiment for anyone else to try although the
>heavy frost last night might make finding larva a little more difficult
>today. I am new to all this but I can understand the significance of the
>difference between a simple cell and a comlplex multi-cell larva both being
>deathly affected by CS. Easy hunting just pouring CS on the little pricks
>to be. There was even another critter in the water that went belly up too.
>Looked a little like an armadillo bug made for water. CS did him in too.
>
>Cheers
>Ron
>
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