5 ways Ant Help You Gardening

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5 Ways Ants Help You In Gardening
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Turning soil
Everybody knows that earthworms help farmers and
gardeners by turning soils. The lesser known
fact is that ants turn more soil than earthworms
and help humans in farming and gardening. They
bring the much-needed nutrients to the surface
by tireless tunnel digging and the soil gets
completely hydrated by rainwater.
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Seed Sowing
One of the most important work ants do is sowing
seeds. Seed harvesting ants contribute
significantly to the survival and germination of
the seeds. Ants do this by taking the seeds to
different habitats and storing them in their
nests full of nutrients. By doing so the ants
help the seeds to get a suitable environment to
sprout. Ants are the reason why many plants
including flowering plants manage to survive
even in the wild.
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Pest Control
Many people do not know that ants actually help
human controlling the pests as they are natural
exterminators. Ants feed on troublesome insects
such as bed bug, flies, fleas, silverfish,
cockroaches, and even termites. If you want to
keep the troublesome insects away, then a good
way is to encourage the ants around your garden.
Presence of ants around your garden indicates
that the environment of your garden is in good
shape.
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Fertilize
Ants prefer to bring their collected leaves and
insects into their nests and some of these foods
decay and help fertilize the plants. Many flower
plants such as violates, viola, and other
flowers benefit from the ants. Researchers say
that plants have adjusted their timing of
flowering and fruiting to get the benefits of
the high ant activity in the early part of the
year. Scientifically it can be proved that the
relationship between ant plant is beneficial
to the plants.
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Protecting plants
Some plants reward the ants for protecting them.
The plants provide the ants with food and
shelter they need. According to the available
information, cherry trees encourage ant
interventions as they are often under the attack
of caterpillars and other insects which
generally eat the new leaves of the trees. The
cherry tree secretes a type of nectar in the
glands at the base of the leaves to attract the
ants. The ants feed on the sweet nectar and if
they encounter any insect eating the leaves,
they will attack the insects and protect the
plants.
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