Black eggs under leaves - are they ants?

Are these ants eggs which have appeared underneath the leaves on a couple of very young apple trees? There were a few ants crawling around under there as well.



Actually on blowing it up it looks like there are aphids?



Once I put my glasses on so I could actually see them, the plant was rife with what looked like aphids, so I pruned off the affected parts and they are now in the bin.

Would like confirmation of what the critters are though.

 

Blackfly

 

provado ultimate bug killer will sort them

some tesco's are selling the 1 litre spray bottles

 

Thanks

There were only a few areas affected as the apple tree is very young (1 year old) so they have been pruned off and binned.

 

Ants eggs are white Merleworld.

 

The ants will be farming them like Moo Moos. They milk them for honeydew & protect them from predators like Ladybirds.