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Why do you fight ants in garden? I understand you won't want such guests in house, but why you don't want them in garden?
Well mainly because it appeared they were eating off of one of my plants. Im worried they might kill it. I didnt want to mess with them because there was so many of them so i figured id leave em bo so long as they arent hurtin nothing. I reached in there to take the plants out and water them and they started swarming me. Thats why i got them out of there. Got rid of the main horde but 12 hours later theyve still got scouts roaming about looking for the plants. So if i put them back in the garden now theyll just come right back >.< Very frustrating because this is going to ruin my light scheduel and put my plants into hibernation for a week or two.
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Oh i forgot to add in i was looking at the ants real closely and i saw two different kinds. Theyre both tiny 1-4 mm's. There was ants that were completely black those ones died quickly from the window cleaner i was using to clean the closet out. I was hoping it would get rid of some of their scent trails and discourage them from coming back. And then there were these ones with mustard colored stripes along their butt. Those ones didnt die from the window cleaner and those ones where much more agressive.
Ants do not eat plants. Not any of them, never. Ants are mostly carnivorous, some eat seeds, and only few tropical and sub-tropical species like Atta or Acromyrmex feed on special fungus, and use leaves to feed this fungus. So, if you would say that aliens or fairies eat your plants it would be more likely truth. Large carpenter ant (Camponotus) colony can damage old trees (or wooden houses). Ants often tend aphids and defend them from predators, making them more numerous, so this is the only ant activity against other plants. But aphids would be there anyway also without ants. But, in other hand, very large quantity of ants in garden often indicate presence of numerous aphids (including root aphids! They're hard to spot) or other, unidentified insects, which may be real pests. Ants hunt for every insects except of their aphid flock, so they actually defend the plants from any other, often much more dangerous, pest (maybe they think you are going to damage THEIR plant, that's why they attack you ;) ) and help controlling the number of other insects. There are gozillions of potential garden pests, many of them are hard to detect, but whatever is damaging your plants, it's not the ants.
We'd like to help you with ID of your guests, but I'm afraid most of us aren't familiar with American species. A good photo would be very helpful, though.
dude.. sorry to correct you but im sure there is still a few thousand ant speices yet to be discovered.. that could well eat plants.. so to completely rule it out would be slightly silly.. But i do doubt very much there is an ant in the US that eats plants ;)
These ants were covering my plant and right where the small branches were extending from the main stem they were gnawing away at it. If it happens again ill take pictures just to spite you tail. =P This is an indoor garden so aphids shouldnt be a problem. The only other bug species ive noticed were fruit flys. They had a taste for the sun flower but they all went away on their own. But yes pictures are definitely in order. Now i just need to figure out how to keep an ant still long enough to snap a photo with a webcam =P
ROFLMAO
perhaps shouting BOO at it really loudly might stun it for a few seconds :P
but tbh i doubt very much the ant will stay still on command lol.. Good luck tho :P
I actually just caught a couple but i think theyre eating through the plastic bag...
Theres the best zoom i could get with my webcam and in comparison to my fingerthe size.
I found out what plant it is the ants keep going after. It is called devil in a bush or love in a mist or the scientifical name is nigella damascena. Here are a few pictures. Lemme know on your thoughts of why you think ants would eat this plant.
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/1945/0150pd8.th.jpg
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1175/55006408di1.th.jpg
Well i'm not an expert in plants ... I suppose it could be the ants live from the plant ore from the seeds.