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  • From: "Corvin" <corvin AT cox.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Ants
  • Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 20:34:27 -0700

Courtney, I first saw the process in 1978 in California. My (ex) wife grew corn and pointed out to me that the ants were distributing the aphids on the corn that they might milk the aphids. Sure enough, I saw them carry the legless aphids up onto the corn ................ corvin
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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] Ants

Do ants eat aphids?  B/C I have a ton of them crawling around my plants this year and I know I have aphids.  I can’t get rid of them.  I sprayed before there were plants out there and I have sprayed several times since they have shown up on the plants.  I am organic and I use something called Organicide.  I am just besides myself right now as I don’t know how to get rid of them.  By seeing the ants crawling around the plants, I was hoping that they were eating the ants???  Do they do that?  Can someone please help me?????  I want to stay organic but this is the 3rd year I have been battling these damn aphids.  I don’t know what to do anymore. 

 

Thanks

 

Courtney

Herb Thyme

Middlefield, Oh

 

 

 

I've noticed in the past that having ants in a greenhouse seems to exacerbate aphid problems (probably since the ants are moving the aphids around and spreading them out).  That hasn't been a problem for us this year

-- seems like we had enough ladybugs to keep down the aphids -- but it is something I'd like to be more proactive about in the future.  Anyone have a favorite method for dealing with greenhouse ants?

 

Ken Bezilla

Acorn Community Farm

Mineral, VA

 


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