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  1. Well, today I give you closer inspections on the anatomy of the ant fern Solanopteris brunei, also called "potato fern". Solanopteris has (partly) a bad reputation of being difficult to grow. And at least I would second that it is challenging. And I am...I believe... infamous for my ability to kill hundreds if not thousands of plants due to my non-existent green thumb! HOWEVER Solanopteris brunei of all things has started to run riot under my care!!! How is that possible, lol! This is the whole plant as of yesterday afternoon: The black plastic basket has an edge length of 18 cm. I tend to let the soil become dry regularly. That´s the reason there are often many fronds with yellow edges aso. This ant fern rather dislikes being kept too wet. It can start rotting fastly if too wet! I grow this plant since spring 2009 if I´m not wrong. It originates from Wistuba nursery. (And I have divided it two years ago!) Currently I count 14 breeding chambers (potatoes) for the ant species symbiotic to this fern. Most of them are covered by the bed of fronds. A very nice group of four potatoes. The potatoes are first greenish with white hairs and fastly turn blackish with brown hairs when grown up. from another angle I love these dark and hairy balls! I have pulled out these two potatoes a little to show you the entry to the interior for the ants. Unfortunately the hole into the ball is overgrown by lots of fine roots. The entry into the potatoes is on their underside. Another one of the 14 potatoes. :) You can spot the small scales on the surface of the ball. And a close up. :) The balls are mostly around two centimetres in diametre. Sometimes slightly larger and sometimes slightly smaller. I have victimised one potato for some surgical examinations... This is the underside with the hole into the interior. On this potato I have removed the fine roots. You see how small the entry is. Must be quite tiny ants which use this hollow balls for their brood. Well...not a first class hotel I guess... Finally: A nice frond with spores. :o) I hope I have helped to broaden your horizons. =O)) Unfortunately I cannot show you the symbiotic ants of this peculiar plant! Andreas
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    Now ist that possible?!

    Morning, I´m rather fed up now!!! Just a few days ago I wrote in this topic http://www.cpukforum...339#entry323848 "thanks God I have never had trouble with root mealy bug so far and hope this will remain the same!" What do you think I have discovered yesterday evening?! ROOT MEALY BUGS in my Lecanopteris terrarium!!!!! How funny is that, eh?! I am cursed I believe!! I have approx. 5 cm of water at the bottom of the tank and I wondered why are there so many white "ellipses" on the water. Could be springtails, but then they would be very large springtails! A closer look brought clarity! http://de.wikipedia....=20070126160621 Obviously these critters have started a major offensive all across Europe, huh? Watch out for them, people! You could be the next victim resp. your plants! Yes, why have so many of them been resting on the water surface? Do they need a certain level of moisture in the soil? I let the soil of my Lecanopteris (long fibred sphagnum, perlite, Agrofoam, lava rock pieces) become relatively dry before watering again. Yes, and the www says root mealy bugs have a fondness for ferns (among others)!!! No question that immediate action was requested! I took all pots from that terra and poured their soil with Dimethoat - like described in the topic I linked to. Finally I have become the guinea pig to find out how well plants tolerate a Dimethoat drench! I have applied a Dimethoat soil drench years ago to a VFT and a Sarracenia. After a week to ten days I had the impression the plants would like to be transplanted. The soil stunk badly and it appeared smeary and the plants looked like they would have declined in growth. And indeed they respond thankfully to the transplanting! In my Lecanopteris terra there is also a Cephalotus which I treated, too. In a week I will rinse all pots thoroughly with water and hope a transplanting is unnecessary. I have transplanted all the Lecas only in June! But you actually never get completely rid of the bad smell of Dimethoat! :-Z Unnecessary to mention I have also thoroughly cleaned the terrarium of course! I´ll keep you informed how the plants reacted on the treatment. @ the moderators: You may think there are now a little too many threads about mealy bugs/root mealy bugs. But if I had replied in the same thread above (General CP discussion) I´m afraid only very few people would have read the new entry as most likely many forum visitors wouldn´t have noticed there´s a new post. ;o) Perhaps you can connect my thread to the topic of cpl tomorrow? Thanks. Andreas
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