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EarlyBird · May 21, 2018

Hi all,

I've noticed some small clusters of aphids on my Earl of Edgecomb, but not my other plants. I introduced some lady bugs to the garden at dusk yesterday, to try to control them. If that doesn't work, I'm gonna blast them with neem oil.

But I've also found very tiny black ants which crawl up the plant but then seem to get stuck in the tiny hairs on the branches. I've made borax/sugar traps and set them around the plants, but are these very tiny ants terribly bad for the plants? I know ants like to herd aphids and protect them. But I wonder if these tiny ants are those ants?

May 21, 2018	#1
EarlyBird Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 65	TINY black ants, and a few aphids Hi all, I've noticed some small clusters of aphids on my Earl of Edgecomb, but not my other plants. I introduced some lady bugs to the garden at dusk yesterday, to try to control them. If that doesn't work, I'm gonna blast them with neem oil. But I've also found very tiny black ants which crawl up the plant but then seem to get stuck in the tiny hairs on the branches. I've made borax/sugar traps and set them around the plants, but are these very tiny ants terribly bad for the plants? I know ants like to herd aphids and protect them. But I wonder if these tiny ants are those ants?