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[compost_tea] Re: Aphids



Bob - Actually I was refering to the fact that you can't stop an 
insect eating fungi that is alive in your tea from attacking an 
insect it uses as a host when when you spray it on a leaf and 
conditions are right for infection.  Beauveria bassiana fungi is one 
that can germinate and live on something as simple as Rose Bengal 
agar but give it an aphid and it will eat that too.  That's what it 
does to live.  

As for microbes running out of food in  ACT, I'm afraid you have 
given a very simple response to a distinctly complex situation.  
There are thousands of species of bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes 
alive in an aerobic tea.  Do you think they all eat only molasses, 
soluble kelp, or whatever else might have been added as "food"?  
Afraid not!  Many are eating each other and many are being eaten by 
microarthropods further up on the food chain.  Even if you keep the 
Oxygen going you'll end up with less and less diversity of species if 
you hold a system as complicated as a compost tea for more than a day 
or two.  At least that is what I've gotten out of Elaine's lectures.  
No one even claims to know about more than a fraction of the 
microbial species that are in ACT so how can we possibly make simple 
statements about what works??

--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, Robert Norsen <bnbrew@y...> wrote:
> Wrong Dave, They stop eating when they run our of food.  Keep the 
O2 going as they run out.  SWAG : they will eat each other for a 
while and go dormant. Stop eating!  Bob
> 
> David Loring <dloring3@c...> wrote:Jeff - You can't stop the 
microbes from eating.
>  
> Dave
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Jeff Lowenfels 
> To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Re: Aphids
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> No, ACT does not KILL........read my post again.....
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