I had ants at my VT farm. They were kind of cool and never caused me problems. I had a 15 by 15 foot room full of plants so maybe thats why I did not see any probs. They were mostly in the closet of pots I had where I did not take out the soil yet do to a couple reasons. The main one was laziness but I am sure there may have been more. Any way once I took the hundreds of gallon pots full of soil out of the closet they disappeared. Sure I had to sweep to,o but it only took a min. I would think they would help airate the soil but who knows. I say feed them food, let them airate, and make some friends. They dont bite. Put neem oil on the food so they cant breed. They like to smoke or atleast mine did.
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