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Fly Attacks ! Glasnevin Area..

Strumms · 2016-07-07 19:10:45

Folks.. just went out to the car and found a load of what looked like a load of some sort of weird flying ant things on it.. anyway on the way down to the shops and in particular on the way back driving into the sun I noticed there was a mini plague of them literally **** loads of them bouncing off the car for the whole 5…

07-07-2016 7:10pm

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Strumms

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Folks.. just went out to the car and found a load of what looked like a load of some sort of weird flying ant things on it.. anyway on the way down to the shops and in particular on the way back driving into the sun I noticed there was a mini plague of them literally **** loads of them bouncing off the car for the whole 5 minutes all the way back to girlfriends place. Skinny but long little F ckers with bigish wings... never saw them before ever... anyone see these tonight or know what species and why there is so many etc ? It's that bad the other half has closed all the windows and it's stifling in here !

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#2 07-07-2016 7:14pm

Keane2baMused

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They're flying ants. Once a year, during the summer on a good day like today they all come out to get jiggy.

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#3 07-07-2016 7:35pm

BeerNut

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They're early.

Last year's thread: 7th August.
The previous year's: 18th July.

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#4 07-07-2016 8:30pm

mortimer33

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BeerNut wrote: »

They're early.

Last year's thread: 7th August.
The previous year's: 18th July.

The Ants must be expecting a bad summer this year.

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#5 08-07-2016 9:06am

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! it's flying ants day...

I, for one, are unhappy with the total lack of early warning here...

"To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)

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#6 08-07-2016 10:14am

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odyssey06 wrote: »

I, for one, are unhappy with the total lack of early warning here.

There was an ad in the paper, but it was very very small.

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#7 08-07-2016 10:17am

Pete Moss

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I, for one, welcome our new flying ant overlords

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