Ants in outdoor grow

Do ants like weed? because i had a baby plant in a plastic milk container that had the top cutoff and today when i went to put it in bigger pot there were these rather small black ants in it.. everywhere. I hope they arent eating it what can i do to kill them? Could it be from watering with molases-water? :S how can i kill these critters without ruining the plant? Cheers

Ants like sugar. Molasis is sugar.

ants are BAD they milk aphids and green fly for their sweet excretions called honeydew,and the ants end up `farming` them. more ants = more aphids. stand your pot on some bricks in a tray of water,so you have a moat the ants cannot cross

i have this same prob indoors, how the hell i dont know, i tryed soaking under water till the bubbles stoped and transplanted..... but yet the lil fuckers are still there my advice is get some spray like i am, KILL THEM FUCKS but leave the plant smokeabul

okay so prob is gone and plants are fine i went and got some raid ant baits and its harmless to my plants and killed the basterds