Re: Ants in my Nepenthes

From: Mellard, David (dam7@cdc.gov)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 08:08:00 PST

Next message: -Tom-: "Re: CP: Off topic: Mimosa Pudica seeds"
Previous message: Lindblom, Mats: "Sphagnum"
Next in thread: Stefan Ploszak: "Re: Ants in my Nepenthes"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:08:00 -0500
From: "Mellard, David" <dam7@cdc.gov>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg279$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Ants in my Nepenthes

>It was mentioned that ants don't directly harm plants, but they
physically
>carry scale and mealy bug to your plants. The ants will attach the pest
>to your plant and let them do their thing. So, get rid of those ants.

Only a few species of ants farm mealy bugs so it may not be necessary to
get of your ants for this reason. My Sarr minor made short order of a
population of ants that wandered into its terrarium so there are other
ways if they keep coming back.

David

Next message: -Tom-: "Re: CP: Off topic: Mimosa Pudica seeds"
Previous message: Lindblom, Mats: "Sphagnum"
Next in thread: Stefan Ploszak: "Re: Ants in my Nepenthes"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Tue Jan 02 2001 - 17:31:28 PST