Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Debugging My Office (totally off-topic)

[George <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If you get a venus fly trap keep it wet very very wet...  I killed mine by 
leting it go over the weekend with no water... the peat moss dried out...  I 
had one a  long time ago that "floated" in my fish tank and did fine and 
dandy...

Soapy H20 will do the trick to repel the bugs...  but I think you will have 
to give it a transplant service pack..  new dirt trim the roots and a new 
pot...

George


On Tuesday 03 September 2002 03:22 pm, you wrote:
> I've got a serious problem with the plants around the office.  Despite a
> thorough spraying of insecticides by the primary plant owner here, we've
> got a swarm of little bugs that look like grey sweat bees.  I've never been
> stung or bitten by them, but they're annoying and they get into things (eg:
> my keyboard - blame all my typos on that bug, btw ;-).  I thought about
> getting a venus fly trap, a pitcher plant, or some other carnivorous herb.
> The problem I forsee with that is that the scents put out by these plants
> to attract their prey might actually encourage more bugs to come into the
> building.  Anyone know if that's the case?
>
> For a gage on how bad these bugs have gotten, I kill about 7 an hour on
> average, and I'm 4 desks down from the plants.
>
> They are worse in the morning, and behave a lot like gnats, except that
> their body is segmented like a bee's, and has a greyscale version of they
> yellow and brown pattern you see on sweatbees.  The wings are fixed to the
> middle segment, and both it and the head are squished by the time I can get
> one to slow down enough to look at, so I don't know details.
>
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