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Old May 28, 2017   #11
bower
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Cold and wet climate here, ditto on ants being a pest. If they're around your containers beware the aphid horde.
All of the ant baits have boric acid as the active ingredient, but for some reason, some brands work better for specific kind of ants, and not for others.

I have a serial ant species problem in the greenhouse. Something drove out the half red/half black ones last summer, maybe the bait finally got them or the paper wasps picked them off. So now I'm seeing tiny black ones again. I think these are aphid farmers. Hope they like the bait....
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