Wednesday, December 2, 2009

When the strawberry flowers bloom, the ants are comin to eat the fruits. How to stop the ants?

I've already put turmeric powder on the flowers but still the ants are comin.When the strawberry flowers bloom, the ants are comin to eat the fruits. How to stop the ants?
Actually the ants are coming in for the pollen and necter and are one of the pollenators of strawberries. There is not fruit until the flowers are pollenated. Ants will eat a damaged, overripe or diseased strawberry but they are not interested in the green or white ones.When the strawberry flowers bloom, the ants are comin to eat the fruits. How to stop the ants?
use laxman rekha(The ants chalk)
Check for aphids . The ants might be there to get the ';nectar'; from the aphids, or to get the sap leaking out where the aphids sucked on the plant.

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