Questions tagged [ants]
Insects of the family Formicidae.
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How do you treats ants in a raised Hügulkultur bed?
I have a raised bed that's 2 feet tall, by 12 feet long, by 3 feet wide. This bed is totally infested ants and it took only one week! The bed was constructed with hugulkulture principles, the bottom ...
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How toxic is Amdro in a vegetable garden?
Amdro's own marketing says not to use on vegetable gardens, but everyone I know does it. How toxic is Amdro? Does soil treated with Amdro "go bad" or does the product break down naturally? ...
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are there any plants that are known to keep termites and ants away
I know we can bait the ant or termite or cockroach with boric acid or baking soda powder mixed with sugar and kill them off.
Or we can mix vinegar with baking soda powder and pore over the ant's ...
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Ants tending bugs on Almond tree
We are the in south of France .. our almond tree has (large) ants tending groups of small bugs. They are always in clusters, on the underside of main branches. Any ideas of how to eradicate them ...
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Ants on corn - urgent pest?
I have ants on my corn. They are either depositing or collecting something. What are they doing and how can I kill them safely? Are they harming the ears?
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Will ants cause a problem in a staghorn fern?
I have an old, large staghorn fern; the shield fronds cover a ball of about one foot diameter. Moved it to the shaded deck last month. Today when I injected water into the ball with a syringe ( ...
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Tiny black and white insects under every pot
In my small garden, I used to have a lot of garden ants living under the pots. With these ants, there used to live black, and some white insects. They (ants and those insects) live under every pot.
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What is the name of this amazon plant that have ants inside its leaves?
Full video of this amazing plant is here on YouTube
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Ant hills replaced dead grass
I used a general purpose weed killer to kill off clumps of grass in my driveway. Now all of those dead clumps of grass have been replaced by tons of ant hills. What’s going on? Do I need to be ...
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How to get rid of ants without harming the tree
Several days ago I found in my garden hunderds of big black ants.
What's worst: I traced them and found that their hole is at the base of my young Macademia tree.
Can I get rid of the ants without ...
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I poured straight vinegar on grass, can I save it?
I poured straight vinegar onto some ant holes on my lawn. Yes, I now know my grass will die on those parts. Is there any way I can save it?
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Ants are farming aphids on my cherry blossom
I have a seedling Cherry Blossom tree, less than a meter high, and 3 years old.
Every year, carpenter ants infest it, and start farming Aphids on the leaves.
The leaves curl up, and the tree is ...
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Is there such a thing as ant castings?
I was reading that ants will kill worms off, so this got me wondering is there such a thing as ant castings since I've found that a type of stinging ants love to move into wood chip piles.
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Diatomaceous Earth, Ants and Skinks
Our lot is very sandy and has many ant colonies. We have skinks living near the house that eat the ants. I would like to:
A) keep ants out of the house
B) not harm the skinks
My plan is to dust the ...
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What is this disease on my carrots?
I have just discovered that some of my carrots have this very dense presence of insects.
Are they aphids?
I have learned recently that ants love to grow aphids and I could notice some ants around ...
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Why are ants staying on my lettuce leaves?
I have some lettuce plants and in the last weeks I have noticed an increasing number of ants staying in the leaves.
They do not appear to eat the leaves nor do anything else.
I wonder what is the ...
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Get rid of ants with sugar/yeast cocktail
I want to get rid of ants on my balcony, because they are one of the reasons my plants always get aphids (no aphid problem yet, but I know they will come back every year). The ants probably have a ...
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Ants digging next to the root of my newly planted Japanese maple
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It has been raining here every day and I have not had a look at my Coral Bark Japanese maple in a while
Today I had a look and I noticed ants digging their nest/galleries around the tree, some ...
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Killing ants without killing the grass
The front lawn of the house we rent is infested with ants. Can I use laundry detergent (liquid) to kill them without damaging the grass? I know dishwashing liquid will kill the grass, but will laundry ...
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Why don't ants eat my lettuce?
I have a very small vegetable garden. I don't use any pesticides or herbicides. My lettuce plants are growing nicely and I've noticed the ants leave them alone. However, as soon as a lettuce leaf is ...
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What should I do about ants and aphids in my mint?
I have a pot of mint on my balcony.
The pot seems to contain an Aphid colony (probably a separate question on how to get rid of them).
But today, I noticed many ants in the pot as well.
The ...
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Is Dawn dish soap effective and safe to kill ants on my houseplants?
I have used Dawn dish soap on my animals to combat fleas and I was wondering if it is safe to use on ants in my plants as well.
We have a real problem with ants in our yard and I had some of the ...
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Getting rid of the bugs on the Lotus maculatus
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and have noticed today that a couple of our Lotus maculatus, aka "Gold Flash", are infested with bugs, as you can see in the picture below. They are in pots, ...
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Peony and Ant Symbiotic Relationship?
After reading this identification question, I remembered we had peonies in our back yard when I was a kid. I noticed a lot of ants would congregate on the plants and was worried they would destroy ...
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Identify small, white, "ant-like" bug found in chips near tree
Can you help me identify and "diagnose" these small, white, ant-like bugs?
There are red wood mulch chips around the base of a tree in my front yard. I pushed some around with my shoe, and was a bit ...
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What is a good way to get rid of fire ants in Florida? [duplicate]
I unfortunately have huge 3 feet across and larger of fire ant nests in the yard. I have tried Ortho Orthene and Spectracide but they aren't getting all the ants. They just pack up and move over ...
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How should I deal with carpenter ant damage on my old almond tree?
I have an almond tree on a house I purchased. The tree looks very old and the large bulk of it didn't have much green - looked very dead. It was growing sideways and near the base of the tree some new ...
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My lemon tree, ants, shells. What is this and how to treat it properly?
There are lots of ants around, they just don't like to be photographed :)
This is the whole tree:
I'm in Sydney, Australia.
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How to prevent ants from digging near my plants?
I have an ant infestation in my garden. Whenever I water my containerized plants or in-ground plants, most of the time, ants emerge to the surface. I think they do that because they don't want to ...
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Are ants/flies a threat to a raspberry bush?
Ants in my garden seem to especially love this raspberry bush at the moment.
I also notice these two little things that look like tiny flies sitting on the leaves- except they are not moving, like ...
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Are ants damaging pot plants? If they are, how badly?
Since spring started around 2 weeks ago, I noticed increasing amounts of ants around my pot plants. Sometimes they like to march over the pots themselves, not sure if they are actually digging into ...
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Are ants in my raspberry flowers beneficial or harmful?
I'm observing ants on my raspberry plants, especially in the flowers. They are diving head-forward into the flowers and stay there for a while. Just like flying insects on other flowers.
Is this "...
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Ants and aphids - which should I fight first
My garden is full of ants, but I thought they are harmless and so I have been putting up with them till now.
However, yesterday I noticed that a pot plant has some aphids in it, and a lot of ants were ...
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How do I control fire ants in the mulch around my tree?
I live in Houston, TX, USA and fire ants are a nearly year long concern. I have had success treating mounds with Orthene as they appear.
However, I had a Siberian Elm in my backyard that was ...
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Why do ants appear around my panda plant?
I've had a panda plant indoors in my office, by a west-facing window for about 6 months or so. Yesterday I found that there are red/brown ants around my plant and it is obvious that their target is ...
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Ants in my garden: good or bad?
While weeding my garden I found a bunch of ant nests (red ants and small black ants). My first inclination was to destroy the nest and send them packing, but I didn't know if they might aerate the ...
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Are fire ants on okra plants a concern?
I've noticed fire ants crawling on my okra plants, particularly where new okra are starting to grow. However, the okra does not seem to be harmed. Is this something I should be concerned about?
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