Yellow spots and shriveling leaves?? can any one help

[kaj621]

here pics of my plants.. can any one please help me.... while i was transplanting my plants into bigger pots.. i found thousands of ants... im not sure if this is the reason but can someone with experience please help me findout whats wrong

thanks in advance

kaj621 Reviewed by kaj621 on 06-11-2007. Yellow spots and shriveling leaves?? can any one help here pics of my plants.. can any one please help me.... while i was transplanting my plants into bigger pots.. i found thousands of ants... im not sure if this is the reason but can someone with experience please help me findout whats wrong thanks in advance Rating: 5

[kaj621]

heres 2 more pics

[kaj621]

stinkyattic, zandor, anyone??

[stinkyattic]

I have NEVER seen a pattern of damage quite like that but it looks MUNCHED by something... but ants? That makes no sense... Their mouth parts woudl not make that pattern even if they WERE interested in cannabis... you say ants, and i know some species of ants hang out where there are aphids... do you see ANY bugs?
WTF!!! That is TOO weird!

[kaj621]

lol... theres also a few tiny grasshoppers but i mentioned the ants because when i was transplanting.. there were MILIONs of them

[stinkyattic]

Grasshoppers?
Ugh those things are plant munchers fo sho.
A light application of neem oil spray makes plants VERY distasteful to insects.

[xxxhazexxx]

i dont know 100% in them bad pics wear the blade has gone that looks like melee bug damage other than that fuck knows im looking for it now

[kaj621]

so its definately a bug??.. i sprayed some Pesticide that was made for fruit and vegetable plants..... ill also try the neem oil

[Uncle E]

It may be Aphids. Aphids are small, soft-bodied insects with long, slender mouth parts that they use to pierce stems, leaves, and other tender plant parts and suck out plant fluids. Aphids may be green, yellow, brown, red, or black depending on the species and the plants they feed on. Low to moderate numbers of leaf-feeding aphids are usually not damaging in gardens. However, large populations cause curling, yellowing, and distortion of leaves and stunting of shoots; they can also produce large quantities of a sticky exudate known as honeydew, which often turns black with the growth of a sooty mold fungus. In some situations ants tend aphids and feed on the honeydew aphids excrete. At the same time, they protect the aphids from natural enemies. Your description of your ant problem makes me lean in this direction.

[Uncle E]

Opps forgot to mention control. If this is a aphid problem a simple "hot tea" will work. Make a "tea" using hot pepers , tabasco sauce, garlic anything you have hot put it in there. Due to there soft bodies spraying them with this "tea" will give them a burning sensation and they will leave. This will not kill them but they will assciocate this burning to the feeding of the leaf and move on. Hope this helps in some way.