ants

I have two questions, didn't want to make two different posts... 1. Just went out to my greenhouse and found a colony of ants living in there, as well as in my tomato plants' substrate. I sprayed the colony with roundup (I found them when killing weeds in the greenhouse with roundup) and it was...

Over the past 24 hours, an ant nest has been set up in my terrarium. Turns out my brother had been eating food in his room next to mine and the sugar ants have migrated to my terrarium. They made their way through the ventilation crack at the top and into a pot that was touching the glass. My...

theres something happening to my esseriana plant. the only thing i can think is the two ants i fed it a couple days ago might have something to do with it. other than that it's been growing just fine for like 3 years with a fertilizing mist every now and then. this is the only time i have fed it...

I purchased three neps yesterday, all of which had full cups of digestive fluids. I would like to give them some extra nutrients without fertilizing through the roots. I know it's not 100% necessary, but I'd like to give them some more growing strength. So would it be appropriate to feed them at...

Didn't find another thread like this one so... I thought this would be a great place to ask some questions about feeding and for people to use as a reference, all sites and info welcome :) The questions are in several stages and involve several plants so put what you know or what works best...

Hello all! We recently purchased our first house and have been in here about a month. One morning nice and early after a few days of rain I noticed an amazing site of these flying ants out in the yard by a bush/cactus. Later that day, I saw wingless ants all over, digging a hole all by...

I have two pots of B. liniflora plants that are flowering. Over the past few weeks, I've been pollinating the flowers and collecting the seeds conscientiously. I left the seeds to air dry before packing them into mini ziploc bags to be stored in the fridge. However, I noticed yesterday morning...

Today i went to look at my small ventrata plant and to my surprise, i just saw a bunch of creepy spider-ly ants looking insects. Can anyone identify them and are they harmful to the plants? they seem to have some egg looking things underside of the leaves, they are like 1cm long, have 6...

Hello every one seeing at it is the meeting time for the ants around my area I thought I would capture a couple queens and see if I could start a few ant colonies I think it would be a better food source for my plants then the fish I have been feeding them seen as they cannot capture anything...

I bought a VLT about 3 weeks ago. For two weeks I left it outside during the day to get sunlight and catch insects and brought it inside at night to avoid any extreme weather/storms. It didn't catch or eat anything for two weeks. So I decided to cut a small piece of earthworm to give it...

Greetings. I have a carnivorous plant terrarium that I had growing under growlights on my windowsill. However, about a month or so ago, I noticed ants running through the terrarium. They are not fire ants or black ants. They appear to be regular sugar ants. They are feeding on all the nectar...

And here's how it ended up: d. ruby slippers: S. X catesbaei: Fused Tooth: VFT in all silica sand: A red robust postrate VFT: Another VFT: S, purpurea with millions of ants: P. moctezumae throwing flower stalk: D. spatulata pink flower: VFT shark's teeth...

My sarracenia are suffering and I can't exactly figure out what is wrong. In some of them, when I unpot them, there are tiny black bugs in the soil that look like sugar ants. I thought that is what they were but as more and more sarracenia keep dying and I keep finding these bugs in the pots...

one of my N.truncata has grown to a size that is shading half of my windowsill plant and i think its ready to take on some more hardy temperature, which is outside in a shady porch. so I repotted it into a 12 inch diameter wide 18 inch tall pot. so the soil don;t dry out more quickly and can...

Here is a picture of a large ventrata I got a few months ago, it has been browning some of it's leaves rather quickly, and I just want to see if anyone thinks it looks overly bad. I haven;t seen any pests besides some ants maybe, and I repotted a week or so ago to give it some more room, but...

i just got 2 new mixtas and 1 is growing like crazy the other bigger one is slow is this normal also they are about to pitcher what should i feed them flies bettles ants ? also as they grow do they need bigger food or just more small pieces? :poke::poke::banana2::boogie::banana2::boogie:

Those of you who have been interested in trying your hands at raising some pet mantids the easiest to start with are the common types are considered naturalized and are allowed to be released in the garden as pest control. You can hatch one or more of these kinds of egg cases and save a couple...

Feels like spring is here, finally seeing some flies and the ants are out too.

Hey guys...I got myself a fert (Yates brand)...Main purpose for it is for my fern and orchid...but just wanna ask you guys if this fert can work for neps too. I never fertilize cause my neps use to wipe out colonies of ants:-)) But now i don't have any ants left in the house and i've observed...

Hello All, Recently I had the pleasure of showing Stewart McPherson some CP sites in the Fl. Panhandle, including the famous Tate's Hell Preserve, known for it's outstanding Sarracenia leucophylla colonies. Here's a few photos to wet your whistle... ; ) More to follow, along with a new HD video...