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[spidra@speakeasy.net]

>From what I've heard, the ants will actually carry aphids and scale onto 
>plants.  Because they are "farming" them.

Spidra Webster
Berkeley, CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Olenio [mailto:tolenio@sentex.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 05:29 PM
> To: 'North American Fruit Explorers'
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] aphids/ants
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:10:02 -0400, <spidra@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
> > The ants keep introducing aphids onto everything.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Isn't that backwards?
> 
> I thought it was the aphids that brings the ants.