Absolutely, the best way to prevent this is either A) freeze the leaves for 48+ hours. Or B) put the leaves in a black garbage bag and let it sit in the sun for 24 hours. This will heat it up tremendously and kill the mites inside. The final way is to add Diatomaceous earth to leaves before you wet them.
I see a lot of people always saying you should dehydrate and grind up egg shells to aid digestion and in order to make their eggs stronger for a better rate of egg hatches, also coffee has been said to be great for worms as long as they are spent (used already), just some suggestions. If you think that's too expensive or something I suggest talking to customers and neighbors for their spent coffee grounds and egg shells, and asking coffee stands for their coffee waste that they probably have to pay to dispose of anyways. I'm not suggesting that you stop feeding them leaves I'm just suggesting you think about also putting other foods in them. Most leaves and woods can be fed to most species of isopods, but I'd do more research about what specific leaves and woods they can eat but I suggest you look into the isopods business/hobby. They look fun, but I have yet to own any myself so I'd recommend aquarium max I believe is the name of the channel but I'd love to see you get into this stuff more. So far really interesting.
Leaves have a great chance of increasing mites in a worm bin. Great update. 😎
Absolutely, the best way to prevent this is either A) freeze the leaves for 48+ hours. Or B) put the leaves in a black garbage bag and let it sit in the sun for 24 hours. This will heat it up tremendously and kill the mites inside.
The final way is to add Diatomaceous earth to leaves before you wet them.
@@jerseyworms thanks for sharing.
I see a lot of people always saying you should dehydrate and grind up egg shells to aid digestion and in order to make their eggs stronger for a better rate of egg hatches, also coffee has been said to be great for worms as long as they are spent (used already), just some suggestions. If you think that's too expensive or something I suggest talking to customers and neighbors for their spent coffee grounds and egg shells, and asking coffee stands for their coffee waste that they probably have to pay to dispose of anyways. I'm not suggesting that you stop feeding them leaves I'm just suggesting you think about also putting other foods in them. Most leaves and woods can be fed to most species of isopods, but I'd do more research about what specific leaves and woods they can eat but I suggest you look into the isopods business/hobby. They look fun, but I have yet to own any myself so I'd recommend aquarium max I believe is the name of the channel but I'd love to see you get into this stuff more. So far really interesting.