ants are friend to farmers explain
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they help in agriculture
For more than 600 years farmers have known that some kinds of ants can help control pests in crops. In Cuba farmers use big headed ants to prevent a weevil from damaging sweet potatoes. Many Cuban farmers have passed on the secrets of this method to their chidren. Mariá Elena González Pellón, who is a member of the Farm Radio Network in Cuba, shared some of those secrets with us. Today I am going to share them with you.
If you grow sweet potatoes you will be especially interested in this. An ant – called the big-headed ant – eats weevils which are pests of sweet potatoes. These big-headed ants are found in many parts of the world. If they are found in your region, you can use them in your field of sweet potatoes for on-site, no-cost pest control.
If you are going to use big-headed ants for pest control you will have to know what they look like. Do you know an extension worker or an insect specialist who can show you which ones they are? There are also some things you can look for yourself if you are trying to find them.
Big-headed ants are a reddish-brown colour. They live in large colonies. That means there are many ants living together. The worker ants can be big (eight millimetres long) or small (2 millimetres long) but in both cases their heads are much bigger than their bodies. In fact their head is about one third of their total body length. So if you notice ants with very big heads, they could be the big-headed ants you are looking for.