Ants and How to Fight Them
Is it just me, or does it seem like we had an abundance of dragon flies this year. One morning I was walking toward the garden and there were four different varieties of dragon flies sitting on the tomato stakes taking in the scenery. Every stake had one sitting on it, and that’s a lot. My favorite is the one with the white, downy body and the black ends on all four wings - it reminds me of a WWII biplane. A number of friends have told me that they had the worst ants this year and have asked for some guidance on what to do about it. First of all, I don’t mind ants in the garden and in the woods but draw the line at sharing my home with them. If they keep that in mind I’ll live in peace and let them be. If they come into the house I deal with it swiftly and permanently. And second of all, since we don’t have ants year round like some other parts of the country, we forget that they are part of our ecosystem, and when the heat summer brings them out we think we’re being invaded. ...