Noticed a couple of ants on my outdoor potted plumeria. I...
0ft to light, indirect
20” pot with drainage
Last watered 1 year ago
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Disagree that they’re harmless, they could easily bring in some aphids and start farming them.
Get Terro liquid ant traps, they have a borax sugar water mix in them that the ants will eat, take back to their colony, and then the ants and the colony die. They helped me get rid of a horror-movie-level Argentine ant problem when I was living in California (I’m talking waking up to 10k+ ants in a black swarm covering the entire floor of my immaculate kitchen) when nothing else worked. The first wave of ants dies within 24-72 hours, but you should keep them out for a few weeks to a month because there will be another wave of hatchlings every 10-14 days until they die off. IIR they’re like 6 to a box for $10-20, and you will probably be fine with 1 trap for a small infestation, then you just squirrel away the others for a future year.
Get Terro liquid ant traps, they have a borax sugar water mix in them that the ants will eat, take back to their colony, and then the ants and the colony die. They helped me get rid of a horror-movie-level Argentine ant problem when I was living in California (I’m talking waking up to 10k+ ants in a black swarm covering the entire floor of my immaculate kitchen) when nothing else worked. The first wave of ants dies within 24-72 hours, but you should keep them out for a few weeks to a month because there will be another wave of hatchlings every 10-14 days until they die off. IIR they’re like 6 to a box for $10-20, and you will probably be fine with 1 trap for a small infestation, then you just squirrel away the others for a future year.
