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Blatta
I was watching a show about sustainable farming and they were talking about greenhouses to treat waste and make plant ready water. Anyway I was thinking, cockroaches are considered a greenhouse pest, but wouldn't they do more good than bad?
I look at it this way, the most common would be Periplaneta of some sort, if they are in your greenhouse it means you are doing two things right. One, keeping the humidity high enough to promote plant and animal health. The second is that decomposing plant matter has enough heat, moisture, and micro organisms to happen properly. So you have cockroaches, why is that good? They are there because you create ideal condition with rotting organic matter for them to eat. They will mainly eat decaying plants and leave your fresh products alone. They serve the same purpose in nature, they destroy rotting plant matter and produce bio-rich frass that acts as a fertilizer for the plants you grow.
I plan on building a greenhouse in the next year or two. I live in the boonies and nothin but woods roaches will venture in so I am going to plant the seed as it were. I plan to introduce what is called the biggest greenhouse roach pest down south, the Australian roach. I think they will serve well as cleanup crews for decomposing plant matter.
What say all of you?
I look at it this way, the most common would be Periplaneta of some sort, if they are in your greenhouse it means you are doing two things right. One, keeping the humidity high enough to promote plant and animal health. The second is that decomposing plant matter has enough heat, moisture, and micro organisms to happen properly. So you have cockroaches, why is that good? They are there because you create ideal condition with rotting organic matter for them to eat. They will mainly eat decaying plants and leave your fresh products alone. They serve the same purpose in nature, they destroy rotting plant matter and produce bio-rich frass that acts as a fertilizer for the plants you grow.
I plan on building a greenhouse in the next year or two. I live in the boonies and nothin but woods roaches will venture in so I am going to plant the seed as it were. I plan to introduce what is called the biggest greenhouse roach pest down south, the Australian roach. I think they will serve well as cleanup crews for decomposing plant matter.
What say all of you?