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Flying Ant Day

  • 19-07-2016 4:58pm
    #1
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭


    My favourite day of the year has arrived! I for one welcome etc etc...


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  • #2
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,957 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    It's today??? Feck. My flamethrower hasn't been dispatched by Amazon yet.


  • #3
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,960 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    It was yesterday in Salthill. Amazing how they all chose the same day.


  • #4
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Yesterday in the North East too.


  • #5
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    They're going nuts here on the Northside. Also millions of birds going crazy trying to eat them. Did this always happen?? I only noticed it in the last couple of years.


  • #6
    Dr Crayfish
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    Discodog wrote: »
    It was yesterday in Salthill. Amazing how they all chose the same day.

    They probably have a whatsapp group


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  • #7
    coffeepls
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    Oh gross - I hate flying ant day. Yuk yuk and yuk


  • #8
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    https://images.mic.com/owwj9g9nb9kkfdpyuygtls13gqzgv73z3j1wbv1grefnr6twkx6xojipzu0hmbza.jpg


  • #9
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    coffeepls wrote: »
    Oh gross - I hate flying ant day. Yuk yuk and yuk

    Open your mouth, free protein.


  • #10
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    They're going nuts here on the Northside. Also millions of birds going crazy trying to eat them. Did this always happen?? I only noticed it in the last couple of years.

    Yes, always happens. July or August, once the temperature gets above a certain figure male and female ants develop wings and take to the air to mate. Usually all colonies in an area do soma the same time once a year.


  • #11
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    So...how long until somebody has run round with a giant net to start selling ant themed meals in a pop up restaurant, they seem to serve everything else in them.


    There is also an Ant-ipasta joke in there somewhere but I decided to take the high road!


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  • #12
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Discodog wrote: »
    It was yesterday in Salthill. Amazing how they all chose the same day.
    Next full moon is 19 Jul 2016, 23:56


  • #13
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Next full moon is 19 Jul 2016, 23:56

    I can feel the fur under my skin, the canines in my head, the blood quickens in my veins....


  • #14
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    My favourite day of the year has arrived! I for one welcome etc etc...
    July 19th. On this day, Galway liberated from Indians, Marathon became Snickers, ice age ends. Flying ants are back.


  • #15
    endacl
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    Got the ant powder down at all antholes yesterday, coincidentally. The all flew off today covers in a light dusting of ant death.


  • #16
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    I can feel the fur under my skin, the canines in my head, the blood quickens in my veins....

    Better rub on some ANTihistamine cream.


  • #17
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    I poured petrol down an Anthill in my garden last week,then said a little prayer for my million victims.

    There was a flying Ant orgy on my sitting room window the next day.wtf?


  • #18
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    endacl wrote: »
    Got the ant powder down at all antholes yesterday, coincidentally. The all flew off today covers in a light dusting of ant death.

    Why? What harm are ants?


  • #19
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze




  • #20
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Was sitting in the playground in Howth earlier when all of a sudden BANG, they were everywhere


  • #21
    SB_Part2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭SB_Part2


    I missed them thank god. They creep me out much more than any other bug.


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  • #22
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Those of you going "what?" may want to read this. I haven't seen any this year, but I did have the experience in South Africa years ago. That wasn't some little swarm, it was days of the sky being completely full of the things. Some folks would catch a bunch, shake the wings off, and fry them up with garilc. :cool:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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