Ants w/ aphid eggs in soil?
cjgw
10 years ago
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geosankie
10 years agorhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
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Comments (11)I may have the same issue - here's a very similar picture from my garden today. The eggs appear bright yellow and perfectly round. If they're ladybugs, I don't want to remove them, but I have seen very few ladybugs around - in fact, none in this particular bed. The only pests I've seen in the garden are green aphids (again, not near the tomatoes) and lightning bugs. Will lightning damage the tomatoes, and could this be their eggs? Thanks! Here is a link that might be useful: Round Yellow Eggs on Tomato Leaf (Flickr)...See MoreHelp w/ ants and aphids
Comments (28)Diatomaceous earth is the best organic way to reduce the ant population in your garden. Since I have a large acreage I don't mind if they build their nests away from my garden but won't tolerate them near my house and garden. I sprinkle diatomaceous earth on every ant hill I see and there is no more activity within a couple of days. Of course more ants move in and set up more hills so it's necessary to be constantly vigilant. Use food grade diatomaceous earth and don't breath in the dust. If I didn't use DE I'd be over-run with ants. Aphids are easy to deal with by using a spray of water or Safers Soap spray. It's not only stressed plants that aphids will be found on, some years they are on some of my roses but leave the other nearby roses alone for an unknown reason....See Moreants making colony of aphids in my corn! help!
Comments (5)don't know about cutting the tassels [don't grow corn anymore!], but I can assure you the ants have placed the aphids there so they can collect the honeydew from the aphids [by 'stroking' the aphids in a certain way that makes them release it!] to take back to the nest, and at the end of the cycle they will take the eggs laid by the dying aphid colony back to their nest for next years "herd" - another safe weapon that may be useful is a mix of icing sugar and borax [about 50-50] in 'bait stations', which they take back to the nest and feed their housemates Bill...See MoreAnts ants everywhere...
Comments (20)Ants are good for the garden, and unless they are getting into the house it would be best to leave them alone. I would be surprised if boiling water will do much. It will cool quickly once it hits the soil and ants are not bothered too much by water in their nest. The ant poison they sell is made from borax. Instead of buying this rediculously expensive product, just get some borax from a grocery store or harware store - it is used for cleaning. Mix it 1/2 - 1/2 with sugar. The ants will eat the sugar and borax at the same time and die. Before that happens they will take some back to the queen....See Morecjgw
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