Re: Ant question
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Ant question
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 12:53:18 PDT
Hi Josh, I assume if you have ants that you have not been using an
icsecticide. Try using one. And the ants are harmless since they don't get
into flowers until they bloom, you should have your plants polinated before
they even have time to get into the flowers
>From: "Males, Joshua" <Jmales@ndsisrael.com>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: "'Pumpkins mailing list'" <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
>Subject: Ant question
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:39:43 +0300
>
>Hi All,
>
>I have started to hand pollinate my butternut squash (the pumpkins haven't
>started to flower yet).
>I've noticed that there are a lot of little ants crawling around in both
>the
>male and female flowers.
>
>Is this good, bad, or just plain ugly? Are they eating the pollen? Can they
>do pollenization in the absence of bees?
>I have started to masking tape the flowers shut.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Josh
>
>---
>Joshua D. Males
>Staff Engineer - NDS Technologies Ltd. Israel
>jmales@ndsisrael.com
>
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