UK gardening - Re: Ants and apple trees

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Re: Ants and apple trees

Nick Maclaren

2005-06-27, 6:25 pm

In article <IIqzGr.A5E@bath.ac.uk>, Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote:

quote:

>
>
>The subject of whether gardners paid attention to ants was raised
>by you, with:
>
>``I know that aphid infestations are a major agricultural problem,
> and I knew people working on defences, but not one was even
> considering attacking the ants. This indicates that they knew
> it was an irrelevance.''

I was talking about scientists researching into aphid control, not
about the ecologically ignorant hoi polloi.

quote:

> Perhaps the subset you contacted represent a biased sample.

Unquestionably. They were real scientists. Totally unrepresentative
of the general population.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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