Flying ant day

Just murdered an entire colony out the back garden with a combination of jeyes fluid and a bucket of water. There was millions of them. Hate the little feckers with a passion, so keep an eye out folks.

Sky King

Wait till the Decs come round for revenge though.

the keen edge

Jeyes fluid makes them stronger you fool!

smash

Get a pet frog, he'll sort em out!

Archeron

smash wrote: »

Get a pet frog, he'll sort em out!

I did this, and now there are frogs everywhere. Good thing I like frogs.

smash

Archeron wrote: »

I did this, and now there are frogs everywhere. Good thing I like frogs.

Get a pet cat to sort out the frogs! Then a dog! Then sell the dog to your local takeaway!

wazky

I'm calling the ISPCA!!

smash

wazky wrote: »

I'm calling the ISPCA!!

Actually yea, that's better than selling the dog.

biko

I've been fighting off banana flies the last few days, now I have to fight flying ants too. Dang.

Cianos

Greystones reporting in. A hoard sprung up from a nest in the garden earlier but has since dissipated.

o1s1n

Is it just me or did the whole flying ant thing happen a lot more back in the 90s?

endacl

biko wrote: »

I've been fighting off banana flies the last few days, now I have to fight flying ants too. Dang.

Those tiny little fruit flies?

Easy trap. Put some cider vinegar in a shot glass, add a little water. Put in a drop of washing up liquid. Stretch a bit of clingfilm over the glass. Make a few tiny little holes in the clingfilm.

Et voila! Fruit fly problem gone. Works a treat.

dodderangler

Flying ants day was last week.
Where hae you been

Cianos

o1s1n wrote: »

Is it just me or did the whole flying ant thing happen a lot more back in the 90s?

We're just in all day on the internet now.

Pumpkinseeds

Evil bloody creatures, I got 5 bites on my left arm yesterday and 1 on my right foot.

GRob1737

They are everywhere today! walking home from work ants all over the ground and bugs flying everywhere dunno how many i swallowed

Ice Storm

It was flying ant day yesterday round my way. My dad inadvertently carried a bunch of them from the garden into the kitchen on his clothes.:(

up for anything

Cinnamon is the best thing for getting rid of the little black ants and their bigger, winged brethren. I read it on the Internet and it's true. Earlier in the summer I had some of the black ants trying to set up home over by my kitchen sink so I sprinkled cinnamon outside on the ground, up the walls as much as I could and all around the water pipe entrances. Then I left the open jar of cinnamon on the kitchen windowsill over the sink and haven't seen an ant in that area since.

Then last week I walked into the kitchen and down at the dining room end saw all over the window a multitude of the flying bastards both inside and out. Hoovered up as many of the feckers as I could - sprinkled cinnamon all over the window sill and brushed it along the upright edges of the windows and did the same outside and along the path under the dining room window and then went back in and hoovered up the ants that were still getting in from outside and haven't seen one since.

So, finally the Internet told me something that is true. Ants cannot abide the smell of cinnamon so a cheap fix at 57c a jar from Aldi's and not harmful to family pets or other insects.