{"id":116948,"date":"2020-06-06T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-black-garden-ants-are-quick-to-colonise-the-compost-country-diary\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T05:03:54","slug":"country-diary-black-garden-ants-are-quick-to-colonise-the-compost-country-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-black-garden-ants-are-quick-to-colonise-the-compost-country-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: black garden ants are quick to colonise the compost | Country diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nMarshwood Vale, Dorset: Within hours they were seething over what looked like a heap of beige beansIn only 48 hours, ants took over one of our new compost bins. Lifting the lid to chuck in some wilted celery stumps, I saw them seething over what looked like a heap of nude baked beans.They weren\u2019t baked beans but pupae, wrapped in beige silk. The larvae of black garden ants (Lasius niger) are one of several ant species that spin cocoons to pupate. It is thought that the casing protects against lethal fungal infections. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/jun\/06\/country-diary-black-garden-ants-are-quick-to-colonise-the-compost\" target=\"_blank\">Country diary: black garden ants are quick to colonise the compost | Country diary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Marshwood Vale, Dorset: Within hours they were seething over what looked like a heap of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-uqg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107875,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-garden-ants-make-a-beeline-for-my-peonies\/","url_meta":{"origin":116948,"position":0},"title":"Country diary: garden ants make a beeline for my peonies","date":"June 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Langstone, Hampshire: A symbiotic relationship means the black ants don\u2019t damage the flowers and protect them from harmful insectsAt the end of March, small holes began appearing in the balding patch of lawn at the base of my brick-built raised beds, each surrounded by a ring of excavated earth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137064,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/young-country-diary-slugs-worms-and-an-ant-colony-what-a-successful-garden-hunt-julia\/","url_meta":{"origin":116948,"position":1},"title":"Young country diary: Slugs, worms and an ant colony \u2013 what a successful garden hunt! 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