Subject: [permaculture] Mosquito fish for the north
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 07:35:16 -0600
At 08:50 PM 3/5/02 +0100, you wrote:
Don't know if your area is too cold for it. It might also be forbidden to
introduce it. Even if it cannot survive the winter, it might be possible to
set it free in summer, if bread in sufficient quantities.
Up North you might use mud minnows (Umba levi ?) They tolerate poor water
quality and are very tough critters. Many other small fishes also enjoy
mosquito larva, as well as dragon fly larva, sold in the bait trade as
hellgrammites.
Mark
Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM