ANTS AND FRUIT.
■At is well known that ants are mually to be found among aphides when,there is an attack of the Jitter, remarks a writer in a London paper. The ants take the honeydaw from the aphides, and it is declared that they keep some of the insects in their underground residences to use as milch cows. Ants are charged with spreading an attack of aphides by carrying them from one part of a tree to another; but it saens probable that they eat the youog ones. There is another question as to the action Of ants in relation to fruit, of which I have never scan any notice. It is not only in shoots infested with aphis that ants are to be found, but also in those containing young caterpillars. Many of the partially operi leaf buds on some young apple trees are found to contain one or more quite young caterpillars of the winter moth, and in a great number of instance* ants are tj be found inside the cluster of leaves. There are no aphides to attract the ants, and what attractions the small caterpillars afford, unless as I'oo.i, is at present conjectural.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 3
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197ANTS AND FRUIT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 3
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