i dont mind ants and i live with them.
No surrender. they made a trail in the next room from the waterheater pad, up the wall and away but, scouts kept checking out my plant. I read online that ants can eat spider mites. ants eat what the mites secrete, it's a sugary substance. They farm many common leaf pests in my greenhouse at a low and acceptable level but seem to show no mercy to mites at any stage , have used a red ant nest outdoors in the summer to clean some infested plants within an hour , fascinateing to watch. another thing that works good for killing ants that eat sugar is called Terro ant killer.
its oatmeal with poison.
Does this work and is it worth putting some in the grow room? learn to live with them or kill the queen.
But there is a caveat here. Yes, they do! Yes, they do. they never did any damage, and they were more interested in my soil, than my plant.
Get rid of them both. ... Do praying mantis eat spider mites?
A normal-sized praying mantis will often avoid ants when they are hunting as they are small insects and will not satisfy their hunger. one time i bought this tall white can by Ortho i think it was.
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Yes they eat spider mites and many pests , unless they develope a taste for resin glands.Ant and aphids go together and it is bad news for any plant. Okay I thought I was on to something with the ants but if they got ago they got to they got ago thanks guys So adding certain flowering plant varieties to a garden will lure beneficial insects to the food source, and they will stay to feast on spider mites and other pests.
they dont overrun me so its all good. I've ordered some preditorial mites to eat them off, but here are the questions... 1. JavaScript is disabled. I haven't sprayed are seen spider mites it over months but I do have a lot of ants they are not destroy the plants just spider mites have any of you guys ever seen this before? if theres too many, just kill them.
they farm aphids, whiteflies, and anything else that trades honeydew for protection. Yes they eat spider mites and many pests , But not aphhids im in thailand ants ate everythin but aphids i got cotton aphids ,not hard to get rid of . This site is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Get rid of them both.i like lady bugs and spiders for getting rid of mites.
as far as the ants i dont see a problem.
they clean my floor. kills the colony. I say leave the ants,A.
all of the ants on earth, outweigh the entire human population. If you have mites, that is part of the reason why you have ants.
If you have mites, that is part of the reason why you have ants. my main problem with this is the idea the ants will eat my predatory mites when they arrive in a few weeks, or even protect the mites like they do with aphids?
For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.it's getting hotter and hotter these days and pests wouldn't fucking leave my plants, nothing biggie with some.. something very biggie with others.you are one lucky man i wish my plants had body gaurdsI think if their not eating your plants, and their not building a nest in the soil/root ball then your golden.
i used it once but, only if theyre unbearably numerous. It's a sugar solution with poison in it, the ants carry it back to the nest and it kills the entire colony when they feed it to the queen.
Although beneficial insects consume spider mites in a garden, they also use flower nectar as a food source. Andyo. strange fact - ants farm aphids - maybe spider mites too - almost makes me think what you are calling spider mites are aphids - if they are brightly colored they are mites - if they are dark little lumps like tiny ticks - then they are aphids..ants eat what the mites secrete, it's a sugary substance. i have ants too. strange fact - ants farm aphids - maybe spider mites too - almost makes me think what you are calling spider mites are aphids - if they are brightly colored they are mites - if they are dark little lumps like tiny ticks - then they are aphids.. yes ants eat mites. Do praying mantis eat ants? Quote.
ants are your direct competition for the most part.