Flying ants

Kermit.de.frog

It's that time of year again when the little buggers gain a pair of wings and get all excited in their bizarre annual mating ritual.

If you have any ants inside your house probably be best getting rid of them now before this starts and close your windows :eek: It's been warm and muggy this summer so probably will be lots of these things in swarms, much more than usual. On the plus side some funny moments can be witnessed if someone happens upon a swarm at just the right time in the evening:pac:

Alternatively you could spray ant repellant on yerself and see how it goes. *not advised!*

Frosty McSnowballs

Deja vu

Senor Fancy Pants

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Deja vu

bien, et toi?

Frosty McSnowballs

[Deleted User] wrote: »

bien, et toi?

Como estas les bibleotech fräulein caca milis

PizzamanIRL

Maria e Marco sono seduti in salotto.

Kermit.de.frog

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Maria e Marco sono seduti in salotto.

Mary and Mark in their living room. OKEEE.

Lady_North1

Went for a walk tonight and was shocked at how many were around.... Hundreds for about a mile of my walk. Thousands of little ones underfoot. Have honestly never witnessed anything like it before. Within an hour they were gone.... Back to their nests I presume. Thankfully none around my house.

(swords area)

Dr Strange

We have lots of spiders. They love them.

EoghanIRL

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Como estas les bibleotech fräulein caca milis

Du schmect sehr cantilope .

Annasopra

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Como estas les bibleotech fräulein caca milis

Is there a German woman in the library eating cake?

Day Lewin

We witnessed streams of them today erupting from gaps in the paving like little insect volcanoes.
Husband filmed them and when you watch in close-up, its amazing; the male ants tug them along by their noses. Sometimes the females sniff all around each other. Some of them were so unbalanced by the unfamiliar wings that they couldn't get off the ground and kept keeling over!

And an hour later - gone!

greedygoblin

I've heard in the past that swarms of flying ants were a sign of rain.

Not too sure if that one would stand up to a rigorous scientific analysis though.

whupdedo

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Du schmect sehr cantilope .

Is maith liom ispini agus fear an phiost

ninebeanrows

Some swarm around these parts this evening! Stay indoors at all costs!

PizzamanIRL

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Mary and Mark in their living room. OKEEE.

Ah that's nice. Tell them I said hello.

Frosty McSnowballs

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Is there a German woman in the library eating cake?

The fcuk would I know? I don't speaky the Welsh!

;p

OneOfThem Stumbled

The tons of little ones (without wings) are there to make sure that everything goes well for their fliers.

Those big ones... those are would-be queens.

Know what the little ones hate more than ANYTHING else? Those would-be queens (from other nests). Will literally tear them asunder.

The more you know/ Damn nature you scary

Ihatecuddles

There's feckin millions of them here. I think one bit me, do they nip?

Kermit.de.frog

Quite a number of UK newspaper articles saying record numbers over there

http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Flying-ants-invasion-causing-misery/story-21737487-detail/story.html

The flying ants are sexually active males and females who hang around for warm, muggy, and almost pre-thunderous weather and then swarm.

Read more: http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/flying-ants-year/story-21666810-detail/story.html#ixzz388bFPORY

Banjo String

My ant Mary is great at flying. She also gives us a spoonful of sugar with our medicine. Says it helps it go down.

The One Who Knocks

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Como estas les bibleotech fräulein caca milis

Donde, está, la biblioteca.

Me llamo T-Bone La araña discoteca.

Discoteca, muñeca, La biblioteca es en bigote grande, perro, manteca.

Manteca, bigote, gigante, pequeño, cabeza es nieve, cerveza es bueno.

Buenos dias, me gusta papas frías, bigote de la cabra Es Cameron Diaz.

cerastes

whupdedo wrote: »

Is maith liom ispini agus fear an phiost

you like the postmans sausage? does your husband (edit wife) know about this?

Kermit.de.frog

Are there any mod rules on deliberately taking a thread off topic? Curious. On topic please or get your own thread. Danke schon

Archeron

Is that what they are? 5.30 today, walked out of the office, and there were kajillions of weird flying things that all seemed drunk and were all divebombing me. I found it funny seeing them getting caught in the webs until one got caught in a particular web and a luminous red spider the size of two sabre tooth tigers came out and scared everybody away.

Merrion

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Quite a number of UK newspaper articles saying record numbers over there

I know the people of Scunthorpe to be weird (comes from having their internet censored all those years) but who keeps records of the number of flying ants?

C.K Dexter Haven

La souris est en dessous de la table.

Le chat est sur la chaise.

Le singe est sur la branche.

JupiterKid

Loads of these flying ants on my back patio last week. They seem to have gone - for now.

A friend had an infestation of the little buggers in his living room.

Miss.Mayhem

I had a swarm of them in my garden after it rained on Friday. They were getting a bit too close to my front door so I had to kill them all. If you mix salt and boiling water and spray it on them, they'll be dead within an hour.

Calibos

Its funny that this particular thread has gone all multi-lingual because when discussing the Swarm in Bray this evening with family, I likened the situation to "Die Gluckliche Zeit" as far as the spiders, birds and bats were concerned.

For the uninformed, "Die Gluckliche Zeit" which means "The Happy Time" was a term used by German U-Boat captains to describe the period of time during WW2 when they were unopposed in the Atlantic and were sinking merchant shipping left right and centre. Modern Military planners would call it "A Target Rich Environment"

Nulty

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Como estas les bibleotech fräulein caca milis

You managed to get an umlaut on fräulein but couldn't manage a fada on the cáca?

Pfff, enjoy your World Cup....

delw

Well i for one welcome our new insect overlords

--LOS--

whupdedo wrote: »

Is maith liom ispini agus fear an phiost

you like a man in uniform?

EoghanIRL

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Are there any mod rules on deliberately taking a thread off topic? Curious. On topic please or get your own thread. Danke schon

Aber nein . Die Wirtschaftskreise hat die ganze Welt erfasst nicht nur Cavan .
Flying ants sind sehr umweltbewusst sein . Cameron Diaz und Pommes sind abwechslungsreich . Sie sind zuvorkommend. Du bist ganz verrückt . Ja, das stimmt.

Day Lewin

Please -- they are QUEENS -- not overlords! #femantism

Buzz Killington the third

Time to dust off the aul magnifying glass...

MultiUmm

One thing I dread about every summer is the inevitable explosion of the insect population. Flying ants, mosquitoes, moths, daddy long legs (no. 1 on the list of insects I dislike), blue bottles etc. Good god I hate the fúckers, can't leave food unattended for too long either or those really small flies will swarm all over it.

Ugh, insects...

marklazarcovic

so they are queens..they perform a function,leave them be i say

Peist2007

Came home from work last week to find what could only be described as a new eco-system in my bathroom. Hundreds of ants everywhere, some flying and others on foot. Emptied my bathroom of all "things", boiled a kettle of water and went to work. Next day my bathroom resembled the killing fields of Cambodia

Super-Rush

We used to call them piss mires for some unknown reason.

MultiUmm

Peist2007 wrote: »

Came home from work last week to find what could only be described as a new eco-system in my bathroom. Hundreds of ants everywhere, some flying and others on foot. Emptied my bathroom of all "things", boiled a kettle of water and went to work. Next day my bathroom resembled the killing fields of Cambodia

I would have a nervous breakdown. Would probably have to leave the house for a few days too.

Donnielighto

Peist2007 wrote: »

Came home from work last week to find what could only be described as a new eco-system in my bathroom. Hundreds of ants everywhere, some flying and others on foot. Emptied my bathroom of all "things", boiled a kettle of water and went to work. Next day my bathroom resembled the killing fields of Cambodia

What? Did you spray it on them?

black_frosch

There are millions of them on the backyard! I don't want to go out.