Better yet get an ant colony with a drag queen :-))) That ought to
confuse the heck out of 'em :-))))

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Of Rick Buell via pbs
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2018 8:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [pbs] ants in pots

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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