Recently while exploring my garden I saw an ant struggling to carry a slug (a small slug, but many times the size of the ant.) Soon another ant arrived and took the other end and together they carried it away. It never occurred to me than ants might be slug predators. I don't know about Judy's tiny ants, but ants are responsible for my having a lot of wonderful Cyclamen all over my garden so they aren't all bad. It would be interesting to learn more about the different kinds of ants and what roles they play for good or bad in our gardens. I once heard a talk by John Muir Laws who has written a lot of wonderful field guides. He spent a long time on a field guide of the Sierra and included in it are a number of different ants. He would spend summers in the Sierras drawing what he saw and meeting people along the way. In his talk he said he met some people who studied ants and came away with a great appreciation for them. Mary Sue _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…