Ants are amazing creature in spite of their size some interesting facts about ants in gardening.

So if you ever wondered whether the presence of ants among your plants is positive or negative, the unsatisfying answer is yes

The ants is both friend and enemy, dear urban gardener.

Continue the complete blog to know about beautiful creature on earth.

How ants can help your gardener?

Here are reasons ants can be nice to have around in your garden.

Pest is common when you’re growing plants. Here ants act as a natural control of pest. Example like leady bird beetle, praying mantis etc…Ants often help control pests by eating their eggs and young or disturbing them during feeding.

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Ants are such on effective biological control agents, in fact that some growers introduce them on purpose.

Pollination is major aspect in plants to get Fruit. As pollinator populations decreases, many gardeners struggle to achieve consistent, heartily harvest from fruiting plants. But ants assist! By marching from flower in search of food (Nectar), Ants often act as unintentional pollinators.

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Ants support healthy Eco system

In traditional gardening ants aerate the soil digging tunnels that carry water, oxygen and nutrients to plants root. And they also speed the decomposition of organic material, such as leaves and dead insects, there by fertilizing the plants.

How ants can hurts your garden?

There are Thousands of different species in the world. And for the most part garden ants will not bother or hurt your plants.

But if you have a lot of sweet or black ants crawling around check to make sure the plants they frequent aren’t with sap sucking pest.

On the other hand, if you have leaf cutters, then they can cause a lot of damage. When they cut up and remove pieces of the leaves, they are not only making the plants look bad, they are leaving big wounds.

Any cut is a place for all kinds of disease and other pests to gain entry. Plants with leaf damage are particularly prone to fungus and diseases that can kill them.

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How to get rid of ants?

Get rid of aphids and other sap sucking pests. This will prevent ants from hanging around to harvest honeydew.

Distribute artificial sweetener near the ants. Reportedly, this is fatal to ants.

Sprinkle ground cinnamon around your plants. This may help repel, but not injure ants.

Pour boiling water on the anthill. The technique works only if you know where the ants nest is, of course. And bear in mind, ants build their homes to withstand rain and flooding. So it may take several attempts before you kill the queen.

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