Thread: Ants in planted pots ok?
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Old 27-05-2007, 10:11 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Ants in planted pots ok?
Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
(Peter Robinson) writes:

| Tim Tyler wrote:
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| ``L. niger workers often carried living aphids away from the attended
| colonies, whereas P pungens removed no aphids...''
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| I didn't know they did that, but surely that counts as farming?

Or predation?

Yes, possibly.

Or even to prevent the spread of the parasite. I agree that none of the
sources cited are conclusive.

Peter
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