sherwindu wrote:

EV wrote:



The 'eggs' are probably aphids. The ants are tending the aphids which are sort
of like the cows of the ant colony. You can kill the aphids with an
inecticidal soap spray, such as Safer's. The ants will bring new aphids to the
currants once you've killed off their cows, so you'll have to spray for aphids
every few days or so, as needed.


You may save yourself some spraying if you coat the trunk of the currant with
a sticky substance, like tanglefoot. It will prevent the ants from herding
the
aphids back up the plant.

Sherwin D.

Good idea in principle, except that currants grow on canes, and painting them,
especially if you have hundreds of them like I do, would be very tedious indeed.