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Roger Tonkin wrote: Whilst pulling weeds today, I pull up a root and exposed a large black ants nest,( and the damned things got all over me!). As there were a lot of small winged ants there, my immediate instinct was to dig out the ant powder fom the shed, but.... I suddenly wondered: Do ants do good or harm in the garden,? Do we need them? Are the flying horrors best off despatched? I realise that poor ignorant man that I am, I don't know! Generally, good, especially the ones that bite most painfully :-) Common ants are mostly scavengers and play a major part in the natural recycling process, not least by taking organic matter underground. A few species, such as Lasius niger, have a VERY SLIGHT effect of encouraging aphids, but there is no evidence that killing them reduces aphid infestations in a domestic context. Some ants are predators, and so will help keep plant parasites under control. Those are the ones that bite .... Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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