Thank you, Dorothee. 🙂 I need to be extra cautious with my health because I have a serious chronic auto-immune illness which makes me especially vulnerable to everything! It is all too easy to get swept up in journalistic hysteria, but I try to be logical. It’s just that the sale of black mosquito larvae is not legally permitted because of the possibility of contagious diseases.
I am going to try to breed my own black mosquito larvae. Stay tuned! 😛
Now for something completely different: I was about to order more catappa leaves and saw that hollow catappa “logs” are being sold. Has anyone used these(in addition to the leaves? They look like they would make good hiding places/breeding caves. I googled and discovered that they are actually rolled up pieces of bark held in position by elastic. In the US, they are ridiculously expensive, but I’m posting a link which has the clearest photo:
http://www.substratesource.com/?p=item&c=h&i=258
Here in the Netherlands, the package with two “logs” costs € 6,80.