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Mushroom cultivation => Cultivation => Topic started by: Mushtella on May 12, 2010, 08:41:34 AM

Title: Mushroom flies how to control
Post by: Mushtella on May 12, 2010, 08:41:34 AM
am having problems with flies anyone who can help pliz do. I grow oyster mushrooms in Zimbabwe
Title: Re: Mushroom flies how to control
Post by: Hitman on May 12, 2010, 09:52:54 AM
Maybe you can grow amanita muscaria (fly agaric) with your oyster mushrooms  ^_^
You know that, this amanitas  are deadly for flies  :mellow:
(on the other hand magical for us)  :ph34r:
Title: Re: Mushroom flies how to control
Post by: dub504 on May 12, 2010, 04:10:27 PM
Mushtella, are you getting fungus gnats (look similar to fruit flies) or big ones like house flies, horse flies etc.? If they are fungus gnats, I've read in the past that hedge balls help naturally control those problems. The problem is that the substrate is their food source and fungicides would be the chemical solution, if you weren't growing fungus... Good Luck
Title: Re: Mushroom flies how to control
Post by: Davie K on May 21, 2010, 01:39:22 PM
daddy long legs...  collect them from the house or where ever...  a quick spray of H2O2 and send em in the fruiting chambers...  no webs