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purpleinopp said:

TY, Elaine! No, I wouldn't pour boiling water into a pot with a plant in it, just the ground if I can trace them to the spot where a ground nest/hole is, and that happens to be a spot where it would be harmless to anything but ants.

I think she meant pouring the hot water into the ant hole. Each time I moved the pot, I could see a hole that they hurriedly moved their eggs into. The other type of ants I was referring to are thatching ants. I've only seen them in the southern Puget Sound area: http://activerain.com/blogsvie...

I don't believe the small red ants I'm seeing are carpenter ants: http://www.hipspro.com/Carpent...