Ants don't cause to much of a problem in my garden. The ones I get are red ants, and I was worried about them at first, until I saw them attacking the caterpillars that seem to destroy some of our plants every year, and pulling them apart. The plants have done much better this year, thanks to the ants. I then read up on ants, and found out that they eat lots of caterpillars and other pests to feed their lavae. I also read that red ants don't encourage aphids, like black ants do and that they also kill any black ants that come into their territory, so they keep the numbers of aphid-encouraging black ants down. The only problem is that they sting, but the easiest way to get read of red ants(if they are nesting under stones) is to turn over the stone and then to leave them for a couple of hours. With luck, the ants will move to somewhere
where they won't bother you. This will not work on black ants, though, because black ants don't have shallow nests under stones.
