My concern there, Gary is the continual use of such antiviral/antibacterial/antifungal compounds adds to the chances of developing resistant strains of the bugs we ar trying to eliminate. This applies to soaking seed as well.garymc wrote: I personally put in a fair bit of effort trying to produce clean maggots, but if adding the Virkon S to the process eliminates the need to "clean" out the maggots because it destroys all the potential nasties then surely this must be an additional step forward in the evolution of maggot breeding.
Perhaps a survey of auroras testing for candida would answer that worry of yours. Unfortunately, it takes money for such research even though it's a simple process. Money well spent, however to learn more about the problem. Couldn't termites can these bugs too?
Cheers
Tom