I'm wondering if anyone has found bugs when using cypress as a substrate. I've found small bugs in the water dish and on fresh feces. It's
bugging the hell out of me and i'm about to go back to paper
                        
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Tim C.
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Posts: 345 (03/05/08 16:10:30)
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do you sray it down with pervent a mite I do this before I put it in my cages
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Posts: 2533 (03/05/08 16:15:24)
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i get fruit flies during the spring and summer (and fall) ... nothing to worry about if it's them
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Posts: 108 (03/05/08 16:31:52)
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i'm not sure aaron....... if they where fruit flies the would be at the pupa stage as the look like tiny catapillers. I don't know how else better do
discribe them....maybe very tiny rolly pollies but thinner?!?
Tim C.
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Posts: 114 (03/05/08 17:05:41)
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I almost always had little bugs in the cypress i used so i did the same thing just spray it with Provent a mite. That got old so i dont use cypress anymore.
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Posts: 249 (03/05/08 17:14:11)
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I experienced the same thing when I used cypress. Little white bugs lumped together in the water dish. I decided to change from cypress and now use
disposable mattress pads from Walmart. Not as attractive as mulch but more absorbent than paper. I got the idea from Steve Volk's website and have been
very pleased with them.
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Posts: 558 (03/05/08 17:28:45)
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i get those as well, they are springtails form the order columbula. they are a small isnsect.
are they white are black? if they are white they will be springtails, but if they are balack they will be mites and i would treat them as soon as possible.
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Posts: 109 (03/05/08 17:35:56)
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They are not white and not black, they are more brown........i know what mites look like and these are definitely not mites.
Tim C.
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Posts: 294 (03/05/08 17:39:36)
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Almost all cypress mulch I have purchased has had springtails, or what some call "wood lice", in it. They are about 1-3mm in length and white to a
silver/gray in color. They are completely harmless to snakes and feed on decaying matter such as wood or feces. As Mike stated, if they are round and black
then they are probably snake mites and should be eradicated immediately.
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Posts: 443 (03/05/08 18:06:46)
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I use cypress and get both the wood lice and fruit flys. Niether is much of an annoyance.
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