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Christina Websell[_2_] · 06-12-2009, 05:34 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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Judith in France wrote:
4) o.k. no probs with plants, I think?

I have more of a problem with them on my plants than anywhere else!
Every year they fill up my cherry tree and harvest from the aphids
that congregate there.-

Ants actually farm aphids and do so by spreading them.-

Yes, they do farm aphids - and why wouldn't they? It helps them to
survive.
How do they spread them?

Tina-

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With a knife?
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Carry them?

I don't think so but they might carry them back to their nests to farm them
there. I think they just take advantage of their honeydew to feed their
babies.
I don't see ants are a problem on trees as they are just taking advantage of
the aphids on there already.
Ants have a wonderful social structure, quite similar to bees.

Tina