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Ant eggs and bugs
Alice Hyslop
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Two problems really frustrating me....
Ants are crawling up my plant , I'm not sure what the plant is but it grows quite fast, has large white flowers early summer. Green leaves. Ants are crawling around the stems and at the tips of the green leaves there are black tiny eggs. At the bottom of the plant the ants are eating the leaves it seems. How can I get rid of them?!!!
Next problem , my leucanthemum maximum shasta daisy is being eating and looks like it has dirt on it it has tiny bugs all over the flowers.
many thanks
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Ant eggs are white. Are you sure the black things aren't blackfly? they don't move around much. Ants are more likely to be after those than troubling plants.
Can you put the pictures on here? Start from the tree in the tool bar, you need a PC or a laptop, not a phone
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you so much for responding
Will post pic of other problem tomorrow
I squidge the blackfly. You can spray them with detergent, it doesn't take a lot.
If you can reach the plant with a hose a good squirt will dislodge them, I hold the head (plant not aphid) while I squirt then it doesn't move out of the way
In the sticks near Peterborough