Flying Ants!

[Alice]

I had the flying ants in the garden today. Glad to know I wasn't specially picked on - it's just flying ant day.

[squashysu]

we had them yesterday as well, funny how its usually only one day, great though as i hate the too!!

[Growem]

Amazing that they can predict the day, how do they know? Actually, ours came on Tuesday, 5:25pm. I was sitting out in the backyard with my daughter, enjoying the nice weather. I had noticed that there were lots of ants about and they were moving with that frenetic activity you normally associate with having disturbed their nest. Suddenly, from 3 separate nests around the patio, there was a huge release of flying ants. My 1.5 year old daughter thought it was interesting and toddled over for a closer look. By the time I came over to her a minute later, she was covered with about 20 ants, with loads of flying ones caught in her wispy hair. Not a big deal, but a bit icky to clean her off.

[Dobby]

We had them all over and in the compost bin yesterday in our back yard,
I seen um whill i was cutting the bed room units down, going to see if they still there today and put boiling water down i hate um

[di]

So is it safe to leave the house??!!

[Growem]

Although I agree flying ants are pretty gross, you really shouldn't hate ants. They turn over as much soil as earthworms do.

[di]

How wrong was Chris Moyles??!!Lulling me into thinking I'd only have a day to put up with them for just a day!~just got home from a day out & our wall & parts of patio are covered with the critters!!

[Nicos]

Now THATS confusing isn't it...I always consider it to be an end of July experience- I wonder if it's anything to do with the weather???

[di]

Not just confusing but downright annoying!!Andi got cross that I wanted(& did!!)drown them in boiling water!~Sorry all ant lovers but they were feet away from the house & all over the patio!(kind off!maybe I was just being a girl?!

[bubblewrap]

They are flying off to start new nests so...................any way you will never kill them all

[di]

That was horrible!!My mouse has never moved so fast!!

[Two_Sheds]

Major ant fly nightmare last night: got home to find a dozen of them on the kitchen windowsill. Clobbered them all with a spatula.

Ten mins later, another half dozen on the window. Clobbered them too, and drowned them.

Ten mins later ... you guessed it.

This went on for a couple of hours ~ I just could not work out how they were getting in ... all the doors & windows were shut. Then I had a brain wave, and pulled out the microwave to inspect the tiled wall behind it. There was a matchhead sized hole in the silicone sealant, and the little bloggers were crawling out of there. So I superglued that hole shut

[Patchninja]

Last night. In my bedroom aarrgghhh! We spent an hour clearing the little s*$@ up.

[reetnproper]

Several dead uns in the kids paddling pool - now removed.

Reet
x

[binley100]

Major ant fly nightmare last night: got home to find a dozen of them on the kitchen windowsill. Clobbered them all with a spatula.

Ten mins later, another half dozen on the window. Clobbered them too, and drowned them.

Ten mins later ... you guessed it.

This went on for a couple of hours ~ I just could not work out how they were getting in ... all the doors & windows were shut. Then I had a brain wave, and pulled out the microwave. There was a matchhead sized hole in the silicone sealant, and the little bloggers were crawling out of there. So I superglued that hole shut

What !!! they were living in the microwave