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AriesVal writes:
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| If he doesn't have, his garden is so toxic I wonder how anything lives.
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| Oh why is that?

Ants are ubiquitous, touch and an essential part of the ecology.

|| I can only speak from years of experience Whenever I've had blackfly on my
| beans I've also had lots of ants crawling all over them for some reason? I
| have no blackfly on this year's beans to date and no ants either. I don't
| know what to think now ? But still not sure you're right?

We KNOW that blackfly infestations attract ants. Why would ants crawl
over beans if there are no ants on them? That explains what you have
seen.

Whether the converse happens to a negligible extent or a small extent
is so far unknown.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.