A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Plant pests and problems Are these destructive?pic

Saw these running up and down the bark of my crape myrtle.



What are they and are they destructive? They surely were in a big hurry! To do what?

those look like ants, i cant realy tell from the pic, their so small

Yeah Christy, I thought so too. There are various kinds of ants though. Sure hope they are not doing any damage anywhere on any of my plants. They were on the crape myrtle tree doing whatever they do.

heres some ant info

maybe they were collecting leaves for their fungus? ewwwwwwww! shure glad im not a ant