Hi friends,

I saw that my new daylily bed has visitors, terrible ones...a.k.a fire ants ( pretty sure it is fire ants) lots of them... What can I do to get them away from the bed without hurting the daylilies. I just planted them less than 1 month ago...
Thank you for your help...

I use pesticide against ants. It doesn't hurt the plants. Or you can use ants baits. The closed ones where only ants can enter. Safer for other animals too.

You poor thing, JavaMom! Snails, aphids, fire ants...plus crazy weather! I feel for you!

I know ants babysit aphids. Don't know if fire ants do it too. So the problems may be correlated.

I know but they are still growing and shooting scapes so I'm not too worry...I'm concern but not going to threw the towel yet

We spend time in New Mexico, and I got bitten by fire ants. The bites were terrible! I don't envy you fire ants in your daylily bed

This is what I use and it works quite well. The problem is that the queen isn't always killed but instead moves the colony, so I have to apply the bait every month or so to wherever the mound/fire ants have moved.

Amdro Fire Ant Bait:
http://www.tractorsupply.com/t...

Thank you Sabrina, Valerie, Barbalee and Becky......it's been raining all day today so I probably have to wait....