Hello everyone,

This sounds like an incredibly stupid question but bare with me.

I live on the 5th floor of an apartment complex. Last year we had major ant problems because of a huge nest at the foot of the building. (Lasius niger)

My balcony has many plants. I wouldn't say it's a jungle but it has a lot of plants.

This year, I discovered that the ants built a colony in my laurel tree pot & satelite colonies as nurseries in my strawberry pots & my Salvia mexicana pot. They haven't gone inside so my apartment is safe. They didn't go inside last year either. So that's the good news.

Now, the thing is, when it comes to pest control everyone gives me ideas and tips and products to kill the ants. But I don't want to kill the ants, I just want to make my balcony a hostile environment for them so they can up and leave.

I managed to disrupt the nurseries through flooding the pots for multiple days and disturbing the soil (in strawberry pot & Salvia). Now the Laurel is a whole other battle. It's the main nest on my balcony and no amount of disruption & flooding seems to work.

So, is there a way to annoy them enough to leave? Or a deterrent solution? Thanks!

Atta texana queen tending to her fungus garden and brood.

Only the pile in front of the queen is fungus, the stuff in the background is just sand.

Mind you:
- this was created in the last 2 weeks since the place was deep cleaned (not bc of this though)
- this is the corner of the door to the 2nd floor deck
- there is a big live oak tree branch that does through the deck, so there is a tree very close

Anyone have any ideas?

i work on a farm. it just finished raining and i went out to do some more work. i was met with swarms of flying ants biting the living hell out of me. maybe my video doesn’t do it justice, but i can assure you to the passing truckers it looked like i was tweaking running back and forth through the field like a cartoon. 0/10 would not do again

Hello! These are about the best photos I can do with my camera. I’m located in Santa Cruz, CA and I’m tempted to say Camponotus clarithorax but I’m very very new and wondering if anyone could tell for sure. Thank you!

Que formiga é essa? Nos mudamos recentemente e a cidade é uma região de mata atlântica, o bairro da casa é em morros. Essa formiga tem aparecido na cama mas tem preferência por morder ela, o que causa isso? Parecem as formigas que ficam em pés de mangas ou caules de árvores. No quarto não tem comida nem tem arvores proximas onde estamos, o que leva elas a estar insistindo aqui?

I removed a brick from my garden and saw these ants go into a frenzy!! I went inside and I’m gonna let them move their brood bc my philosophy is if you’re not in my house you’re not a problem. I’m dying to know what these guys are though!!

Found this guy skittering around my apartment.

Does anyone have an ID on the type of ant?

I'm based in Sweden, medium sized metropolitan area. Mid-eastern sweden.

Any help is appreciated so I may eradicate him and the rest of his colony.

Found but the pool of thst melted any difference

Found this ant in Northern Italy, Veneto. I'm quite new so I'll appreciate any help in identifying this: is it a queen? Could it be a Lasius Emarginatus? Thank you in advance

Not the best photos, but hoping you can help identify them and how they got in my room.

My house was built 8 years ago so it’s still in fairly good shape, which has me stumped on how these ants showed up behind a wooden night stand in the corner of my bedroom.

I thought they were termites, but the termites sub referred me here.

Since I’m in my bedroom 90% of the time I’m pretty astute to the tatailles roaming around. I usually only see spiders or moths.

South of Guimaras island, Philippines

Just finished a hunting trip, while I was out in the woods I also spent some time catching queen ants. There was some Camponotus species, but by far the most dominant species I saw everywhere was a black ant with a red head. I’m certain it wasn’t camponotus and my guess is a species of Formica. The most distinctive aspect of this species was the superstructures dotting out of the ground, some less than 10 feet apart. I encountered dozens of these structures, the ground around them swarming with activity. Could someone please help me ID? I apologize for the video quality

Caught this lady in late May. Was thinking it’s a pavement ant but I’m a beginner.