How do you get rid of ants?

[Dorothy]

Ants are aphid herders?
I can imagine the jokes the ants must have about them.

[dave b]

Originally Posted by Dorothy

Ants are aphid herders?
I can imagine the jokes the ants must have about them.

aphid and mite 'herders'. Pretty brilliant for an insect.

[Gin]

Not long ago I saw a segment on TV. about ants they showed ants with red heads hauling mealie bugs on top of thier heads moving them around to start a new farm , is this so Charles ? Gin

[Dorothy]

Thank God ants are the size they are .. imagine what they would have in store for us!

[puddin]

You know, a good scary movie would be if ants grew bigger than us and took over the world. They have the numbers. Yes Charles, the ants were 1/32 of an inch or close to that. Oh, totally off topic, I got 2 new plants from Ebay! One is a Sharry Baby and the other is Bllre Diana Dunn Newberry. The Newberry is huge! I'll try to put some pictures on later.

[Tindomul]

Originally Posted by puddin

You know, a good scary movie would be if ants grew bigger than us and took over the world.

I thought they made that movie already, in the 50's.
Them or It or something like that.

[Dorothy]

It was a clown alien movie, story by Stephen King.
Them is it .. 1954 ..
and Empire of the Ants ..1977 ..

[Tindomul]

Oh, They?? lol. I know there was a giant ant movie!

[puddin]

I figured they made a scary movie like that. There are some with giant spiders and moths and ect. That was a big thing at one point. Good thing they don't do that now, with all the special effects and stuff, it could really get scary.

[Dorothy]

Marianne - First of all to the OB
Look on the 2 previous pages of this thread and you will find posts that list different commerical products and home remedies to eradicate ants ..
Ants aren't the problem so much as other bugs that they prey off of that will do damage to your orchids like aphids and mites which ants will herd .. ( Ants 'milk' aphids Oh the horror! )
Fun Facts -
Myrmecophila (meaning - ant-loving) is a genus of orchid that actually encourages ants to live in their hollow pseudobulbs. This symbiotic relationship protects the orchid from insect infestation as ants are ruthlessly territorial and in turn, provides the ants with a place to thrive.
I read somewhere that the ants provide these orchids with 'fertilizer' (I am not sure if it's from their excrement or from their 'luggage' .)
Ok, I found it - "The ants associated with Myrmecophila tibicinis pack many of the pseudobulbs with debris that includes other dead ants, a variety of insects, pieces of plant material, seeds and sand. Myrmecophila tibicinis directly utilizes minerals of the organic debris ("garbage dumps") deposited by the ants inside the hollow pseudobulbs." from Myrmecophila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia