Tropical Zone Gardening: Orchid bonanza, 1 by extranjera

extranjera wrote:
The Myrmecophila do have ant colonies, perhaps even the ones on my terrace. I don't look too closely because around here ants are always around. My house is very old and made from stone and an early form of concrete, the ants have spaces in the walls and although we have managed to keep them under control - when they start appearing inside the house we fumigate - I know I can't kill them all. I have several different Myrmecophila here, all of them have the tubes that ants can live in and supposedly the ants protect the plant from other insects. I don't see many ants when I water them so I'm not sure they are active colonies. Plus, I have lots of geckos and they eat ants. I've noticed a large gecko seems to live in the orchid tree I have hanging on the terrace, I'm sure he is well fed.