I have pampered my bell peppers almost as well as I have done to my tomatoes. They are repaying me well by providing me with loads of peppers each week.

This week I had to go to the VA hospital in Portland for surgery, again. This morning while crawling around the yard with my first cup of coffee I found an ant eating a hole into one of my good looking, Beautiful, Lemon Boy tomatoes. I looked around for more damaged fruit and found that the ants had eaten a hole into one of my Golden cal-wonder peppers. Whats more, a half dozen were wondering into and out of the hole they had carved!

When I cut the two fruits open there was no damage or ants inside. Up to this point the ants have always been around all my pepper and tomatoes. This is the first damage they have caused. I have no aphids for them to eat or tend. Why would they start doing this all of the sudden?

The Pepper was not ripe and still had some size to put on. The tomato was about as big as it was going to get and had not started to turn color.

Can anyone give me a reason or idea why they would suddenly start to do this?

Thank you,

James