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Ant Fights! Apr 16, 2008
;) Our old friends the pavement ants have already been spotted fighting over territory. This ant is generally considered beneficial as they prey on other insects in the landscape. However, they occasionally will get in homes in search of food. Most home owners don't notice the common landscape residents unless two colonies decide to fight over territory. In this case, the workers in two colonies sound an all-points alarm and hundreds assemble in an open area to fight each other. Actually, that should be to kill each other! They commonly will form a mass of ants on the side walk, on the driveway or on landscape timbers.
Unfortunately, many people think that the best thing to do is to spray these piles of ants with an aerosol insecticide, or worse yet, drench the mass with gasoline or charcoal lighter! If you simply ignore them, the battles rarely last more than an hour or two when the ants of both colonies return to their respective nests. P.E.S.T. Newsletter, April 14, 2008
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