Re: OT: ants
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com (Dennis Kramb )
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: ants
- From: s*@QNET.COM (Slc.Dennis Bishop)
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: starlord@QNET.COM (Slc.Dennis Bishop)
>From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
>
>I divided a clump of AUTUMN BUGLER last week and one of the rhizomes was
>over 50% eaten......and was infested with ants. Perhaps another critter
>did the damage, but the ants were raising some of their eggs in there.
>
last winter I found that the local red ants had built a nest in my
newly built beds, and over 1/3rd of the iris rhizomes were totaly
full of the ants, their eggs where in alot of them and the others
where being hollowed out by the ants. No other bugs where out and
about. If they wheren't eating them, they were sure doing one hell of
a job digging the insides out.
i ended up tairing up the whole bed and laying down ant killer for
30days before rebuilding the bed.
Oh, BTW, we have a big black ant out here that'll clean away just
about anything. you can spot the nest as nothing is alive within 6ft
of the nest hole. I've dumped worms there and watched them attack it.
i've also dumped a pot full of my used alfafa on it and watched them
cut it upand take it down into the nest.
The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond.
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