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terrie_carrozzella

help! ants!

Terrie Carrozzella
15 years ago

Hi

I just went out to cut back my window box, which has a few cosmos. The cosmos are covered in ants! They are your run of the mill black ants, like you might get in the house after a lot of rain.

I'm in Nh where it has rained just about every day this week. My window boxes look terrible, and now this..

Anything I can do about the ants/

thanks!

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