Ants in my pants (and by in my pants, I mean on my mind)  | No
Comments   When doing phenology in the '99 common garden about a
week ago I noticed that the plants in the eastern-most row
(those along the very edge) appeared to be more likely to have
ants and (very anecdotally) seemed to have a different amount of
florivery damage and browning than the rest of the garden (it's
been too long owing to my laxness in flogging and I can't
remember if it was less or more, though I am inclined to say
less). Whether there actually is a difference in damage and
whether this difference results from ants, edge effects, or
chance remains to be seen.  A few days ago when I was doing
phenology in the '99 South common garden I noted that the
majority of plants in the garden had ants and that there was low
variability in ant species composition - virtually all I saw
where the large black ones with red heads. These ants were very
aggressing and would leap off the flower head onto my stylus as
I was pointing at the anthers to c