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Flying Ants plague Dublin!

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  • 27-07-2004 3:11pm
    #1
    vinnyfitz
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    What's with the sudden infestation by flying ants of our city this afternoon? I've never seen the like of it!


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    #2
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    yeah they are everywhere.

    Club must have just closed.


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    #3
    impr0v
    Registered Users Posts: 2,647 ✭✭✭impr0v


    Protest at poor public transport.


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    #4
    beer enigma
    Registered Users Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    All over Cork too.......war or the worlds :D


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    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    They just come out once a year as far as I know.

    I remember a few years back the house that I was renting was infested with them, or at least the bathroom was. They used to crawl out from the corner of the bath beside the taps where it butted it against the wall. There was thousands of them. The whole side of the bath was covered in them. And after you'd clean them up grabbing handfuls at a time, you would come back an hour later and there would be just as many. Although I didn't have as many as my neighbour. Apparently there was so many in his bathroom that the whole shower tray and two sides of the shower enclosure were covered in the little feckers. And if that's not bad enough, they were dropping off the ceiling too!! Weird thing is that the infestation only lasted a couple of days!!

    B.


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    Tommy Vercetti
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    could be the heat and humidity over the last couple of days, either that or they're just here on a short midweek break


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    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    Yeah they only come out once a year, we have them in the path out the front of the house, they never come inside though. Its a pain in the ass walking in the gate for a day or two but I'm not going to kill them over it.


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    robbie1876
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭robbie1876


    I've been battling them in my house for last few days too. Thankfully they seem to be almost gone now. Just used that poison ant food stuff and it seems to have done the trick.


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    Superman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    ah jaysus there everywhere!!


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    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Is it just me or is this problem getting worse...I cant remember it being a problem when I was young.


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    beer enigma
    Registered Users Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    If you have one of these on your car, you could always detach it & clear the ants !!


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    #12
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Yep, it's crazy. I thought the soil in my garden was moving, but it turns out there was just a gajillion ants.


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    eth0_
    Registered Users Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    WHAT? I'm scared to leave work now!
    Can't see any out the window (i'm in the IFSC). Are they around the city centre?


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    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Originally posted by eth0_
    WHAT? I'm scared to leave work now!
    Can't see any out the window (i'm in the IFSC). Are they around the city centre?




    OH.
    MY
    GOD!
    THEY'RE EVERWHERE.
    QUICK, WE MUST FLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!


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    eirebhoy
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    Send in the seagulls!!!


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    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    That's really weird, I just got off the phone to a friend and just out of the blue he said,
    "What's the story with all these bloody flying ants???"
    He was just after pulling into his driveway he noticed hundreds of the little feckers all over his and his neighbour's house. I never even mentioned it to him before he said anything.

    And as my friend lives close enough to where I work, I just had a look out the window and sure enough there's a few flying ants on the cars outside!

    B.


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    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    "And I for one, wecome our new ant-overlords and would just like to mention that as a well respected member of the community I would be useful rounding up people to work in their underground sugar caves"


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    WetDaddy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭WetDaddy


    Not sure if anyone's interested, but the reason that they're "everywhere" is that it's mating season.

    For ants, that is...

    The queen has wings all the time (I think...). During mating season, the males grow wings. The queen, who's much stronger than the males, flies as high as possible. The males then all swarm after her, most of them dying along the way.

    The strongest male is the one that catches her and has his way. Romantic, isn't it?

    Don't try doing this with women in Temple Bar though, it tends not to work...

    ...Uhhh... Apparently...


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    vinnyfitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭vinnyfitz


    I can tell you it's not much fun cycling through them :D
    - even before I read Deathfunk's contribution:eek:


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    I for one welcome our ant overlords! [1]


    DeV.
    [1] YES!!! I never thought I'd seriously get that line in.... can anyone name the source (for, um, no points).


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    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,147 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Originally posted by DeVore
    I for one welcome out ant overlords! [1]


    DeV.
    [1] YES!!! I never thought I'd seriously get that line in.... can anyone name the source (for, um, no points).

    Kent Brockman of course...


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    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Does that mean that all we have to do is look out for a fairly biggish ant flying around with a crown on her head being followed by a load of drone ants and kill her so this won't happen again?

    Where's me gun???


    LOL at Sleipnir!! :D

    They just mentioned it on the news, so it must be a farily big invasion!


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    #23
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    IT'S IN REVELATIONS PEOPLE!


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    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    I for one welcome our new insect ov....


    Oh, it's already been done SEVERAL MILLION TIMES IN THIS VERY THREAD.


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    FX Meister
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    Kenty Brockulator, Shelbyville News


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    #26
    Tazzle
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tazzle


    A sure solution to dramatically reduce the mass swarming that can occur indoors. Hoover.


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    Superman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    Can't see any out the window (i'm in the IFSC). Are they around the city centre?

    Don't worry i'm sure the un-natural surroundings of the IFSC will keep them at bay!


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    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Yep, I cant go out the me garden without those lil cúnts surrounding me. And to top it all off I got lil puppy cúnts everywhere too (thank god they dont have wings ;D).


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    #29
    Flukey
    Registered Users Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    You always get a few evenings around July and August when they all come out simultaneously everywhere. It is no real harm and it is only on 2 or 3 evenings in the whole year. Enjoy the spectacle.


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    #30
    fizzynicenice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 466 ✭✭fizzynicenice


    little feckers just wont fúck off!!
    i'm gonna go ape shít with a million cans of raid and end the turmoil


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    #31
    deecom
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭deecom


    Bloody unreal those little sh1ts can not belive there are so many tbh.
    Hope the rain puts them off, or they go home.:)


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