Re: "cure" for aphids and ants?
- To: M*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: "cure" for aphids and ants?
- From: "* F* D* <s*@nr.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:28:17 -0500 (EST)
At 01:21 AM 11/10/1998 -0800, you wrote:
>Thats exactly what i have done to my Miscanthus grasses that have
>aphids (the ugly black kind that make it look like it has a mold!). Ive
>also found that flicking the grass knocks quite a bit off.
>Unfortunately its hard to discourage ants from the aphids on my
>miscanthus since, the grass is growing right next to an ant nest!
Barry:
Does anyone know if the water blast treatment works because the aphids get
forcefully removed leaving behind their stylets still lodged in the plant
tissue? Perhaps they can't grow new stylets and starve where they land,
having been abandoned by the ants. I can imagine ants rescuing the healthy
members of their scatered flock.
Rich Dufresne
