Aphids. They have a symbiotic relationship with ants, since they release a sweet sticky substance. The ants also protect them from natural predators like ladybugs.
boredlife42
The aphids secrete a sweet fluid that the ants dig. You don’t have an and problem. You have an aphid issue
GreenMan-
How can you see the ants with so many aphids?
Poor hibiscus…
blankspacepen
You have ants ‘farming’ aphids. You need to treat to eradicate the aphids and the ants will move on.
Strawberrygranny
How do you get rid of aphids?
the-enigmatic-
the-enigmatic-
Straight-Damage6499
I’ve used dawn dish soap and water but that’s only marginally successful. A lot of gruesome picking off by hand and killing. Had a beautiful lavender rose bush they wouldn’t leave alone but I managed to keep them under control with that method.
Sad-Particular-7797
Spray her down with water mixed with a few drops of dish soap to kill those aphids. Keep treating the whole plant every couple of days until they’re all gone. When the aphids are gone, the ants will leave too. Just make sure not to spray the plant during or immediately before the time of day when it gets the most sun to prevent sunburn ☺️
Hunter_Wild
The ants are farming the honeydew that the aphids produce.
TurnipSwap
because the aphids they are farming like to eat your hibiscus bloom.
marinamunoz
aphids, youll have to treat the plant , the non toxic way is to clean the most you can with a white soap bar solution (potasic soap or manual washing soap white bars), several times a weeks, until it gets a lot less bugs. Others use sticky yellows tags near the plant or in the plant, those are for the aphids that are in the fly part of the cycle, they get stuck.
filifijonka
They are looking after their little aphid farm!
momolingnoona
The root (hehe root, get it?) problem is the aphids (as you can tell by the comments). Hibiscuses are thirsty plants and they turn vulnerable to aphids once they dry out! I don’t know how your weather conditions are but during the hottest part of the growing season Hibiscus might need watering literally every day, its even common to water Hibiscuses every other day. Hibiscuses wants consistently moist (not wet) soil. Water when the top inch of soil is dry. When you water, make sure you do it in the morning so it doesn’t evaporate in the harsh mid-day sunlight, nor in the evening to prevent diseases forming on the damp leaves in the cool nights. Try to also have the soil be watered at least 8-10 inches down. (You can use one of those moisture meters to check if you watered deep enough). Shallow and (therefore) frequent watering encourages shallow root growth, which causes quicker drought, deeply watered soil encourages the roots to grow downwards, where soil doesn’t dry out as quickly. Anyways, I encourage you to probably research some of this yourself to, I’m not an expert lol. Wish you and your plants the best!
BiluochunLvcha
oh, they are farming aphids. drinking that sweet sweet excrement. barf….
jhay3513
Farming aphids
boxdkittens
There are ants because you need to blast that hibiscus with a hose to wash all those aphids off.
Ants farm aphids and its awful and annoying but at least the ants alert you to the presence of aphids.
Kattorean
The ants will bite the wings off the aphids to be able to keep them on the plant, sucking out sap, that the ants will take from the aphids for their own use.
The aphids will continue to suck the sap from the plant until it dies. Eliminate the aphids & the ants will move on…or die with the aphids.
Martha_Fockers
buy insecticidal super soap and spray all of them to death it wont harm the plant or you at all its just a type of soap that suffucates soft bodied insects like fucking aphids who suck energy from your plant and ants farm there sap and move them around to the most nutrient dense part of a plant aka the parts its growing or blooming or fruiting and ruining em
if i see alot of ants near my plants i know 9/10 i have a aphid problem or a aphid issue about to emerge.
i destroy any ant hill i find on my property i spray things with neem oil to kill and deter aphids and use the insecticidall soap when i see them
if the problem is to large i buy lace wing larvae and let thousands of them loose on the plant. ill add sticky fly trap tape to the base of the plant so the farming ants can go fuck themselves tryna defend there cattle
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They’re after the aphids
Aphids. They have a symbiotic relationship with ants, since they release a sweet sticky substance. The ants also protect them from natural predators like ladybugs.
The aphids secrete a sweet fluid that the ants dig. You don’t have an and problem. You have an aphid issue
How can you see the ants with so many aphids?
Poor hibiscus…
You have ants ‘farming’ aphids. You need to treat to eradicate the aphids and the ants will move on.
How do you get rid of aphids?
I’ve used dawn dish soap and water but that’s only marginally successful. A lot of gruesome picking off by hand and killing. Had a beautiful lavender rose bush they wouldn’t leave alone but I managed to keep them under control with that method.
Spray her down with water mixed with a few drops of dish soap to kill those aphids. Keep treating the whole plant every couple of days until they’re all gone. When the aphids are gone, the ants will leave too. Just make sure not to spray the plant during or immediately before the time of day when it gets the most sun to prevent sunburn ☺️
The ants are farming the honeydew that the aphids produce.
because the aphids they are farming like to eat your hibiscus bloom.
aphids, youll have to treat the plant , the non toxic way is to clean the most you can with a white soap bar solution (potasic soap or manual washing soap white bars), several times a weeks, until it gets a lot less bugs. Others use sticky yellows tags near the plant or in the plant, those are for the aphids that are in the fly part of the cycle, they get stuck.
They are looking after their little aphid farm!
The root (hehe root, get it?) problem is the aphids (as you can tell by the comments). Hibiscuses are thirsty plants and they turn vulnerable to aphids once they dry out! I don’t know how your weather conditions are but during the hottest part of the growing season Hibiscus might need watering literally every day, its even common to water Hibiscuses every other day. Hibiscuses wants consistently moist (not wet) soil. Water when the top inch of soil is dry. When you water, make sure you do it in the morning so it doesn’t evaporate in the harsh mid-day sunlight, nor in the evening to prevent diseases forming on the damp leaves in the cool nights. Try to also have the soil be watered at least 8-10 inches down. (You can use one of those moisture meters to check if you watered deep enough). Shallow and (therefore) frequent watering encourages shallow root growth, which causes quicker drought, deeply watered soil encourages the roots to grow downwards, where soil doesn’t dry out as quickly. Anyways, I encourage you to probably research some of this yourself to, I’m not an expert lol. Wish you and your plants the best!
oh, they are farming aphids. drinking that sweet sweet excrement. barf….
Farming aphids
There are ants because you need to blast that hibiscus with a hose to wash all those aphids off.
Ants farm aphids and its awful and annoying but at least the ants alert you to the presence of aphids.
The ants will bite the wings off the aphids to be able to keep them on the plant, sucking out sap, that the ants will take from the aphids for their own use.
The aphids will continue to suck the sap from the plant until it dies. Eliminate the aphids & the ants will move on…or die with the aphids.
buy insecticidal super soap and spray all of them to death it wont harm the plant or you at all its just a type of soap that suffucates soft bodied insects like fucking aphids who suck energy from your plant and ants farm there sap and move them around to the most nutrient dense part of a plant aka the parts its growing or blooming or fruiting and ruining em
if i see alot of ants near my plants i know 9/10 i have a aphid problem or a aphid issue about to emerge.
i destroy any ant hill i find on my property i spray things with neem oil to kill and deter aphids and use the insecticidall soap when i see them
if the problem is to large i buy lace wing larvae and let thousands of them loose on the plant. ill add sticky fly trap tape to the base of the plant so the farming ants can go fuck themselves tryna defend there cattle
