Ant Life

This is a sign that one of our compost bins is too dry.

It's full of ants! Black ones I'm pleased to say. There's no movement on the surface unless you poke about a bit and then it comes to life!

A couple of weeks ago it was full of eggs and pupae, but the adult ants went crazy to save them so we left them to it. It looks like they got moved out of sight. I'll revisit it when we start seeing flying ants appear as it could be very interesting!