Are you noticing a lot of ants in your garden? This could be a sign that you have aphids, tiny insects that love eating a wide variety of plants. When aphids eat, the sugary plant sap is ejected from their bodies, created what is called aphid “honeydew.” Ants of course love to eat this sweet excretion and are therefore attracted to areas with high densities of aphids. But don’t worry too much. With the exception of grey aphids, which are a serious problem for brassica crops and appear more in the later summer and fall, I have rarely if ever had aphids be enough of a problem that the plants haven’t been able...