Re: [CH] Hab-loving ants
Chet Bacon (chet@chetbacon.com)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:31:50 -0400
Put the peppers in pots and spread Diazonon around the ground.. next
year of course.
Pick them just before ripe and ripen them in the house?
I suppose you could wrap the stalk with sticky tape, same type they use
for trees and catch the little guys that way..
Chet
Frank Munley wrote:
>
> Every year, my habs are afflicted by tiny ants which eat holes in the
> peppers and just have a ball running around inside. I guess they have a
> discriminating sense of taste, because they wait until the peppers are
> ripe--the middle of August here in Virginia. Is there a chemically
> benign way to ward them off? I worry about strong chemicals diffusing
> through the pepper skin, in which case even washing won't help.
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