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Re: [compost_tea] Re:Beauvaria for soft bodied insects -- re instructions
Beauveria is happy in your brewer, as long as you put in fungal foods.
This fungus is found in soils with decent levels of soft-bodied insects. Thus, many forest soils contain this fungus.
How do you make it grow? A culture of soft-bodied insects, check for the correct spores typical of Beauveria. You need a Fungal ID book - talk to your Mycologist at your nearest University or college, they can suggest something to help you.
When in doubt as to whether you have it or not, buy the inoculum. Look at what the spores look like in that inoculum. Add the spores to your compost, to your soil, and check the fungus as it grows out. Then you know whether you have it in the future.
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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