Ants in the VFT

From: Sara A. Gardner (gardner@magick.net)
Date: Fri May 16 1997 - 07:46:05 PDT


Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 07:46:05 -0700
From: gardner@magick.net (Sara A. Gardner)
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg1942$foo@default>
Subject: Ants in the VFT


>Hi Sara, I'm curious about something. Were the ants attracted to the VFT
>and ended up in the traps? Or the soil as a new home? Or the VFT as a new
>grazing ground to take their aphids to? The answer to foiling the ants
>might lie in discovering exactly what they were after.
>Thanks,
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>John H. Phillips III e-mail:phillips@library.ucsf.edu

John, to be gruesomely honest, I think the ants were attracted to
decomposing slugs in the traps. I was feeding them as per instructions
from THIS list!

Sara in Grants Pass, Oregon



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