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I hate to disagree with you PR-Giants. Couple of years ago I had a basjoo plant which had some ants on it. At first, I didnt pay much attention as on the grown leaves nothing had happened, there was no track of them cutting the leaves, however they were going into the new comming banana leaves and were cutting them into pieces. I didnt noticed of course until the new leave came out half eaten. At that time the plant didnt seem to grow like it did on regular basis and so I did some cleaning of the ants that I found around the outside part of the root system and move the plant into another location (thinking they were coming from somewhere else). By the time the next leaf came out it was even worst and it was not only eaten but came as well all rotten. I thought it may be excess of water that made the new ones come out with fungus but it was still the ants doing its job to the leaves. After a while being tired of not having a nice plant anymore and end of summer almost aproaching I decided to clean all the root system and did found out a colony of ants with a nest deep in the middle or begining of the rootsystem. They had open a hole which seemed to me like they were able to go from the inside into the steam. I cleaned it as much as I could, taking the queen ant out, lots of male ants (ones with wings), larvaes and ofcourse the group of soldiers. The plant did better after that, but next years winter left it in really bad shape that I thought it was not worth anymore to keep trying saving it. Since then I always watch out for ants and have always poison against them.

Mr Curriedrice, I hope you manage to put pics at some point. I really want to see how your plant is doing.

Cheers and good luck getting rid of the ants