Re: Ant question
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Ant question
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 16:16:34 PDT
Well, I was simply saying that if you have ants I can assume you are not
using an insecticide. I am also very sure that to grow a pumpkin to it's
fullest potential you either need all the bugs in the world to die so you
don't need insecticides or you need to use one. Your choice. I would
prefer all bugs die myself but that would screw up the worlds ecosystem so
just use some insecticide when you start to see bugs.
>From: Patrick Olaris <polaris@WOLFENET.com>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Ant question
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:52:42 -0700
>
>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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