I have a couple of red ants nests on my plots and never really took much notice of them till last night.

After work I went to shut down the cold frames etc and took a look round my fruit trees. I spotted a couple of the critters on an apple tree and automatically thought they were farming aphids but no they were munching away at the base of a leave. They had got through half of the stem base.

If they want to declare war then so be it!