Beneficial bug in the worm bin

[Jay Blair]

A byproduct of my adding harvested leaf mold to my indoor bins is a healthy concentration of rove beetles in my bins.

Even now that I freeze the leaf mold before adding to the bins, I still have sufficient quantities of these entomological little hot rods to keep other little nasties such as flies and fruit flies under control in my indoor bins.

Even though my greenhouse is attached to the main house with open ventilation to utilize the passive solar heating, I get no flies or rove beetles in the main living quarters.

Learn more of the rove beetle and its beneficial aspects at

www.govlink.org/hazwaste/house/yard/problems/goodbugs.cfm?entityID=98&ModeID=632&grp=biorem

[jwalker]

re:bugs in worm bin-
I have three indoor bins in plastic file storage boxes ,the beding is shreded paper a small amount of sand ground up vegetable waste. after a week i had those small black nats. got to be a real pain . every fall my house is invaded by ladybugs so I captured a few and put them in bin 1 the next day when opening that bin no nats excaped could it be the lady's are not so lady like

[tt]

lady bugs are good preditors. any soft bodied insect. They are ussally around where there are aphids but will also eat the fruit flys andor nats.