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Re: ants

There isn't a problem with ants, until they start farming aphids all over the
garden.  That's when they need to be eliminated!  I'd prefer not to have
aphids all over my vegetables and I really don't want to see my flower leaves
all curled under with hundreds of aphids underneath.

I'm sure there is a middle ground somewhere between totally wiping out my ant
population and the 60's philosophy below!

Toni

In a message dated 97-06-28 12:20:40 EDT, you write:

<< I can't *imagine* why ants in your garden or  anywhere outside your house
would be such a concern that you would seek to eliminate them!  Hasn't it
occurred to you that you might not completely  understand the role of ants --
or many of the other garden creatures which  are more of a nusiance than
anything else -- in your garden or in the world?   Don't you realize that
when you use poison to eliminate one "pest" you will  eliminate many insects
you might want to keep -- spiders, ladybugs, etc.?

How ever do you cope with gardening at all, what with its constant barrage of
"icky" insects, bugs, worms, spiders, grubs, rot, dirt . . .

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