Battling Leaf Cutter Ants. They form conga lines from holes to the pond edge. They strip every single leaf off my Canna Lilies, Pickeralweed and Water Primrose. Once these are gone they hold their ant noses and go after the mud plantains.

Before it got dark I followed the conga lines to three holes which were treated with bifenthrin granules.

I'll go looking again in the morning. These guys are pretty near unstoppable but we gotta try.


4 acre pond 32 ft deep within East Texas (Livingston) timber ranch. Filled (to the top of an almost finished dam) by Hurricane Harvey 9/17. Stocked with FHM, CNBG, RES 10/17. Added 35lbs RSC 3/18. 400 N LMB fingerlings 6/18