Re: Ant question
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Ant question
- From: P* O*
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:52:42 -0700
- Mail-Followup-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- References: <19990609195318.69514.qmail@hotmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 12:53:18PM -0700, The Pumpkin Master wrote:
> 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
This strikes me as really bad advice. Since the ants aren't doing any
harm, why would you want to kill them and expose yourself and your
pumpkin to an insecticide unnecessarily?
Shaun
> >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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