Ants are a gardening inevitability. If you have a garden, you have ants. A lot of people seem to think that's a bad thing, and they've come up with a lot of myths around what ants do in the garden and how to get rid of them. I've done the research so you don't have to, and I think the results will surprise you. The results surprised me!

Here's that meta-analysis I promised you:
The effects of ants on pest control:
a meta-analysis
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Chapters:
0:21 Ants will kill plants
1:38 Ants will encourage aphids
2:51 Ants eat all my seeds
4:36 What science says about ants
7:13 Ant control myths debunked
7:49 Cornmeal kills ants
8:56 Boiling water destroys colonies
10:39 Coffee grounds repel ants
11:30 Essential oils do anything

#gardening #ants #science

Image attributions:

Weaver ant in fighting position, World Imaging - Own work
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Ant Collects Honeydew, Dawidi, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Ant head, Fedaro - Own work
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Workers communicating with pheromones, NoahElhardt - Own work
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Coffee Beans, MarkSweep - Own work
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Lavender Essential OIls, JJ Georges - Own work
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