Ants and orchids are never a good combination. One day you’re misting your orchids or watering them, and as soon as the water drenches the potting medium, here they come.
Ants: black, red, small, big, two, millions… No matter what kind of ants your orchid has, it’s not a good sign.
Orchids do not attract ants. They specialize in attracting specific species of bees, moths, butterflies, humming birds...but not ants.
What attracts the ants into your potting medium is that the other pests who produce a sugary sap have probably already infested the pot. The ants are attracted to your orchid to feed on the sap that aphids leave behind.
Ants in themselves won’t harm your orchid, unless your orchid transpires (in excess) honeydew.
This isn’t as rare as you might think, and some genus produce more sap than others. Cymbidiums and Phalaenopsis can sometimes overproduce this liquid substance, and it will ooze out of the leaves, the flower spike, nodes, and even blossoms—more on that topic below.
Ants are fascinated, in the most, part to the sugar. To get to the sugar in your orchid, they’d have to eat the leaves, which they aren’t too fond of. What they’d prefer is to munch on the waste products that little critters like aphids that produce. In a sense, ants will take care of aphids, just to consume their excrements.
What also attracts ants is that the potting medium is a place that is perfect for building a home. It has air circulation, is well protected, and has light and darkness in a perfect proportion.
Once they settle in the potting medium, you have a problem.
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