The quick answer is NO, ant will not kill sunflower plants or flowers.
Many people in blogs and question sites all over the web have reported ants of every kind and description on their sunflower plants. For specific information in your area, check with your local Extension Service agent. He's there to help.
Here are some of the general ideas about ants and sunflowers:
Ants will usually only attack your garden at these times.
Planting
If you planted you seeds in or near an ant hill, then ants may eat the seeds, causing them to not grow.
Harvesting
Ants do not usually eat vegetable plants, but they do like the vegetables that the plants produce. Tomatoes, Peas, Beans, Corn, Melons, and Pumpkins are some of the things ants like to eat. Check on your garden everyday and harvest you crops as soon as they are ready, or the ants will beat you to it!
Yes they do I feed the ants sunflower seeds at work.
Baby sunflowers does not die when ants eat them they just die when they get too dry
Harvester Ants gather and eat seeds, especially the seed pods of the mesquite bush.Seeds
Harvester Ants gather and eat seeds, especially the seed pods of the mesquite bush.Seeds
Yes, doves eat ants, but ants don't make up a very large part of their diet. They mostly eats seeds and grains and supplement those with a very small amount of ants, snails, and grasshoppers.
It depends on the kind of harvester ant and what kinds of seeds there are where they live. Some eat various kinds of grain, that is to say the seeds of grasses. The grains we grow for harvest come from grasses that grow especially big seeds, but harvester ants generally go for wild grass seeds of a moderate size. This is not to say that they will not also gather the seeds of commercial grains. Some kinds of seeds get eaten by the ants, others grow a lumpy part called an elaiosome that is suitable for the ants to eat. The real seed of such plants either is not good to eat, or has a very hard shell. Once the ants have eaten the elaiosome off the seed, they dump the real seed in the area where they collect their rubbish. There the seed can germinate and the rubbish acts as a fertiliser for the plant. When a plant relies on ants to distribute its seeds, we speak of the process as myrmecochory. Apart from the grains that the harvester ants eat (which is not myrmecochory, because the seeds themselves get eaten), we find myrmecochory in pod bearing plants like some kinds of Acacia, but also in some species of Agathosma and some species of Euphorbia
Animals cant digest it due to the silica in its leaves. But small birds and termites eat the seeds.
Harvester Ants gather and eat seeds, especially the seed pods of the mesquite bush.Seeds
No. Red ants (also known as fire ants), while omnivorous meaning that they eat both meat and plants, normally feed on young plants and seeds. They also nest in the soil. They will attack and eat creatures many times their size.
They mainly eat insects such as ants, beetles, grasshoppers, wasps and sometimes a treefrog or lizard. They will also sometimes eat seeds and fruit
These omnivorous tend to eat anything to survive. Other than eating seeds and other vegetation, they will eat termites, bees, and ant larvae.
Ants will eat algae. Ants will eat virtually anything. This includes other insects, dead animals, sugars, fruits, oils, seeds, and vegetables.
they can eat ants.
with wind and humans.