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

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From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net] On Behalf 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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