Re: Ants and Ginger?
Very big problem at the airport when we do inspections of cut ginger
flowers going to the mainland. You would be suprised how many can be hiding
inside the sheaths, in addition to the mealybugs and other homopterans.
MTF
>Barry wrote:
>
>>I was looking at my ginger plant just now, and I noticed several Argentine
>>ants exploring it. It has no aphids or pests, but it seems to have
>>attracted them. I'm wondering if gingers in the garden also attract ants?
>
>If you look very closely at the leaves where they are attached to
>their sheathing bases or along the edges, you should see either the
>occasional, tiny globule of a clear syrupy substance or, if it has had
>a chance to solidify, a semi-transparent grain, almost like a grain of
>sugar. In fact this is precisely what it is, albeit containing only
>tiny amounts of sucrose, but nevertheless enough to make ants come and
>raid.
>
>Dave Poole
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