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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dealing with this is so annoying. Not because it’s difficult to handle, though it is, but because I have to exterminate multiple Argentine ant colonies in rapid succession despite loving ants. Please just let me garden in peace, ants. :(

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Could you give them something that doesn’t harm the plants, that might lure them where they won’t bother you, and that won’t make the problem worse in a different way?

    Maybe they’d like something you normally throw away in relatively small quantities that won’t attract something worse or poison anything?

    e: disclaimer: IANAG. I am terrible with plants.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Argentine ants are altogether too numerous to meaningfully distract or redirect for long. If there’s a new ____ source, they’ll find a way to dive in and then produce a sister colony like 40 feet away. My options amount to either spreading poison, thereby killing a non-negligible sum of rabbits and neighborhood dogs, or killing the ants. I can always grow poisonous or undesirable veggies, but I can only take so many years of mustard, parsley, garlic, and tomatoes.

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