Hello all

My Peachtree had its first harvest last year, and it was fabulous. It's only two years in the ground, but I was able to harvest over 60 peaches that were really good everybody liked them. Furthermore, they were totally "organic", i used no pesticides or chemicals. I wrapped each peach in a paper bag at the start of the season. Even with this, people were shocked we got peaches, as commercial operations use a lot of poisons. I've planted another Peachtree and 2 nectarine trees, which I plan to let produce next year ( i've heard you shouldn't let any of the fruit be produced the first year) .

Anyway, my question is if ants were protecting the fruit. Almost every peach bag had ants inside doing something like this ( you can see is zoom up of the issue at 21 seconds):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5b_W0IWqOA

They appeared to be getting some of the juice from where the stem meets the top of the peach. However, there was zero damage, and when I wiped off the ants and those gross white things , the peaches look perfect. None of the peaches had any damage of any kind, which is unbelievable for fruit in our area.

I'm wondering if this is what happened:

the paper bag created only a very small entrance to the peach, which the ants were using as a road, and they would attack any bugs that tried to enter. The ants were using some of the juice that came out of the natural gap between the stem in the fruit, but not harming the fruit in anyway.

These peaches were top notch and everybody thought they were fabulous.

It's ironic, because I put tanglefoot along the trunk at the beginning of the season, but there were just too many of them and ways on to the tree.

What do you think?