ants in pots
Rick Buell via pbs (Thu, 05 Apr 2018 05:35:30 PDT)

They buy ant colonies **without** a queen....
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On Thu, 4/5/18, Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com> wrote:

Subject: [pbs] ants in pots
To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Date: Thursday, April 5, 2018, 8:03 AM

I agree that it sounds possible to unpot the
plant and wash the ants
away, but I have never had ants in my
pots and so have no direct
experience. In my Mexican garden, we
have enormous underground colonies
of leafcutter ants. This is like
National Geographic, with trails of
ants carrying parasols they have
snicked out of my hibiscus and
gardenias. A plantsman there suggested
making a deep hole into a colony,
perhaps by hammering a broom handle
into it, pouring gasoline down the
hole, tossing a match and running away
as fast as possible. He says it
leaves a crater and a bad smell but
crimps the style of the ants. Don't
try this in your bulb pots.

I wonder why ants prefer your bulb pots
to the ground. Is it the
drainage? Most ants don't like to live
in boggy ground.

Do all the colonies appear similar, or
do you have several species of ants?

People pay good money to buy ant farms
for their children.

Jane

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