Many gardeners know how not just to get rid of these insects, but, today we will consider not methods of destruction of garden ants, but advantage and harm which they do.
Whether there is an advantage of garden ants?
The opinion of experts and inhabitants on advantage and harm of ants on the garden site, was shared. Some claim that these insects help to loosen the soil as make in it the courses, destroy corpses of other insects, and even fertilize the soil nitrates. Others complain that thanks to ants on trees there is a great number of a plant louse who prevents to grow up a harvest. To understand which of opponents of the rights, let's remember biology.
Ants really eat corpses of other insects and do the courses in the soil therefore they can bring considerable benefit, but only if they have enough resources for food. If the gardener destroys all weeds on the site, insects will be forced to occupy the fructifying trees and plants and also they will need to breed a plant louse. Therefore, garden ants will bring benefit only on that site where there is a lot of grass, but not where there is practically no lawn.
If you faced that in a garden too many ants and plant louses divorced, you can or apply special means to their destruction, or just set the site raznotravy. Biologists recommend to apply the first way not always, according to them, it is so possible to break natural balance of forces in the nature. But, the second method sometimes is not pleasant to gardeners who do not want to part weeds on the site. Therefore, definite answer to a question what to do with ants on the site does not exist, everything depends on your private judgments on a problem and on how, in your opinion, the well-kept garden has to look.
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