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[Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

How about putiing ant and spider dust under the tree during the time of
ripening when most attractive to ants.

Or give them something easier to eat (spoiled jam on the ground).

Lastly, a barrier.  Tape a 6" width of tinfoil around the tree and spread
petroleum jelly on it.  This too would only be during the ripening time.

Choose your weapon.

Tom

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com wrote:

> Gang:
>
> Well here is the story...my "late peach" tree was loaded with large,
> beautiful, succulent looking peaches...the only problem is as the
> peaches ripen, little tiny red ants attack them and burrow through the
> flesh...I am so sad...I wiped a bunch of ants off of one and sampled
> the fruit and my gosh...it was incredible...what an ambrosiatic(yes I
> created a word)experience...but here is the sad part, the ants forced
> me to pick the peaches in a less then fully ripe state, and frankly I
> can taste a tremendous difference between the tree ripe ones and the
> still kind of hard ones...so the question is, how do you handle
> this???
>
> Sad, sad, so very sad...
>
> Fluf
>
>
>
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>
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