As someone who grew up raising fruit trees: ants <i>are</i> the pests, since (at least the Argentine ones that I normally deal with) they not only farm aphids and such, but also frequently are the ones actually eating produce.  Granted, in my particular case I didn&#x27;t <i>really</i> care, since a couple ant-holes don&#x27;t really hurt anything if you&#x27;re gonna cut up the fruit for a pie or something anyway (just wash &#x27;em real good first), but it&#x27;s kind of hard to sell fruit to the general public when said fruit has obviously been eaten at by six-legged hive-minded vermin.<p>Ants are cool and all, but they&#x27;re also jerks, and I find much satisfaction in the latest trend of pouring molten metal into anthills to make artwork.