Fecking flying ants

super_furry

Has anyone noticed that we seem to have been infested with flying ants over the last couple of days? Just went out to have some lunch in the sunshine and they're all over the bloody place. I seem to remember they were all over the place three or four summers back but I haven't seen them since.

I for one blame the government.

Downtime

Harder to stamp on, the little bast**ds.
Can of deoderant and a lighter fixes it.

Flukey

It's an annual event. It is only on a few evenings in July and August. Annoying, but harmless. Get over it.

blah

It's like a freakin' ant jamboree out there!

Megatron

Flukey wrote:

It's an annual event. It is only on a few evenings in July and August. Annoying, but harmless. Get over it.

They are Male ants , they grow wings , fly away to find a shag/shags and then die 24 hours after they have hatched from the larva.


Well i just thought i'd share it with you all.


And yes it is annoying, yes the fire soloution is effective, but the best way to kill ants is Smoke ... they "breath" through there skin .

Megatron

Well thats another thread i've managed to kill off \o/

segadreamcast

Megatron wrote:

Well thats another thread i've managed to kill off \o/

Yeah, I saw sooooo many of them today... really irritating because 3 of them flew on me. I also saw this giant colony of male/female ants in the middle of a path...there must've been a thousand of them. All the females were around the outside, with the apparently-winged males in the centre (I didn't know what they were until I read this thread) Ugggggggh...

sector

LIGHTNING wrote:

What you want is the flame thrower from aliens! Would be lots of fun too

Hey, be nice to the ants, they may take over some day. . .

I for one would welcome our new ant overlords!!
all hail the ants!

Irishstabber

sector wrote:

Hey, be nice to the ants, they may take over some day. . .

I for one would welcome our new ant overlords!!
all hail the ants!

Haha thats a great ep

Blisterman

Wasnt there a thread exactly like this last year?

grimloch

Wasnt there a thread exactly like this last year?

Probably, and another will surface next year too. Similar to the annual spider threads.

Anyway I hat the little buggers.

Last year on holidays our cars were fully covered in them and in order to head out to dinner boiling water was first employed followed by a scarper into the car and the windows were up-openable for the journey, in Summer.

Flukey

It's amazing how they all come out all over the place at the same time, not just local colonies. It's a wonder of nature.

Franky Boy

Last summer I woke up at around 3.00 in the afternoon and walked downstairs in the blistering heat and found my whole wall covered in ants and flying ants.They are so annoying, I must agree with everyone!


I also found an ant hill.So I mixed some spirits together and empted the through a small funnel into the top of the anthill an set it on fire,it seemed to get rid of them for a good while, although i'm not sure what the safety issues were at the time!

Talliesin

Megatron wrote:

They are Male ants , they grow wings , fly away to find a shag/shags and then die 24 hours after they have hatched from the larva.

Far be it for me to condemn same-sex relationships amongst ants, but I think you'll find some of them are female. A species that only involved one sex in the mating process wouldn't be favoured highly in darwinian terms.

OfflerCrocGod

NoelRock wrote:

...there must've been a thousand of them. All the females were around the outside, with the apparently-winged males in the centre (I didn't know what they were until I read this thread) Ugggggggh...

Leave 'em alone they're having an orgy; the little buggers.

Son_of_Belial

Downtime wrote:

Harder to stamp on, the little bast**ds.
Can of deoderant and a lighter fixes it.

Yup. I concur.

Talliesin

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Leave 'em alone they're having an orgy; the little buggers.

No, they copulate in mid-air, not on the ground.

grimloch

Talliesin wrote:

No, they copulate in mid-air, not on the ground.

Your vast knowledge of the sexual doings of ants is worrying.

My dog eats them whenever they wander onto the patio.

I remember being wee and off on holidays and rolling onto a load of them on the lawn and being absolutely terrified of my life and leaping into the pool.

Supercell

About 70 f or 23.75c is the threshold for all manner of nasty bugs to get a foothold here..be thankful that such temps are a pretty rare beast..!! and why we seldom get anything like mainland europe or even the UK gets in terms of flying nasties or even slithering nasties ( well St Patrick of course got rid of those ).

Talliesin

grimloch wrote:

Your vast knowledge of the sexual doings of ants is worrying.

Ah, the secret of the Sex & Sexuality forum is reveal to all the non-subscribers. It's really all about ants.

DonkeyStyle \o/

NoelRock wrote:

I also saw this giant colony of male/female ants in the middle of a path...there must've been a thousand of them.

Yeah I saw something like this the other day aswell... right in the middle of the path... I think they were ontop of one of those little shores/access hatches... they must have some kind of nest in there.
I actually stopped to look, could hardly believe my eyes.