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Flying Ant Day (FAD) Today.

GrazGraz
edited July 2007 in Chit chat
Yes, today was the annual Wedding flight for our six-legged, formic acid spraying friends. Where I live, they erupted from the pavements and took to the skies for an afternoon of luuurrrve. Not as good a turn out as last year, (actually it was the year before last, as they seem to skip a year now and again) but it was still interesting to watch (perv!) As usual, the seaguls ate most of 'em!
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  • bobsbobs
    edited July 2007
    That wouldn't be so bad - but here they invade your home and crawl all over everything, yuck! :(
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  • RNDRND
    edited July 2007
    we had at least 3 swarms today. Is it the same day every year?
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2007
    I hate ants be they flying or crawling, I leave a nice little dish of Revenge out for them. they can't resist the stuff, all it takes is one of them to take some back to the colony and it'll wipe the whole lot out eventually. It took about a month to get rid of all the ants here, they vanished for a while, then the returned I was like shit the stuff didn't work after all. Turned out the ants that came back were actually from a different hive altogether, within a week or so they were gone as well.

    Did I happen to mention I hate ants :D
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  • chop983chop983
    edited July 2007
    Incredible, next door's nest cracked open yesterday as well, the bastards got in my house last year, found a hole in the door frame, took a while to flush 'em out I can tell you
  • GrazGraz
    edited July 2007
    RND wrote: »
    we had at least 3 swarms today. Is it the same day every year?

    They usually pick a really hot day, or the day after. It's their trigger to, 'get going.' Very occasionally they'll have two flights in one year. P'raps thats to make up for the years they don't bother flying.

    I got bitten by a Princess three years ago (I bet very few people can boast about that :D :D )
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I hate ants be they flying or crawling, I leave a nice little dish of Revenge out for them.

    I guess that's the same stuff we have, only it's called, 'Nippon'
  • chop983chop983
    edited July 2007
    One presumes you serve said dish cold.
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited July 2007
    Who decides which ants get their wings? Do they have to go through years of training before getting their pilots license?
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  • WinstonWinston
    edited July 2007
    Oh ants... you ain't seen nuthin' till you've lived in the southern states of the US (and probably Mexico also).

    FIRE ANTS.

    These make innocuous looking mounds in the ground. Should you step in one, thousands will crawl up your leg and then all bite simultaneously, leaving welts that last weeks and itch like hell.

    The best one I saw was a friend of mine, who'd just got clipless pedals on his bike and hadn't quite perfected the art of disengaging from them. He gracelessly fell over right into a fire ant mound. Of course, his frantic struggles to get free from his bike just excited the ants further and caused more to swarm out of the mound!
  • festershinetopfestershinetop
    edited July 2007
    Do you remember the fear when you were young and first found out that there are ants that fly.

    My next door neighbour had a few nest on his back lawn and decided to pour a small amount of petrol on the mounds and set it alight.He lit it and it flamed for about a minute and then seem to go out so he got his trowel bent down and turned over the soil and a blast of flame that was under the soil hit him smack in the face and burned off one of his eybrows.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2007
    festershinetop wrote: »
    Do you remember the fear when you were young and first found out that there are ants that fly.

    My next door neighbour had a few nest on his back lawn and decided to pour a small amount of petrol on the mounds and set it alight.He lit it and it flamed for about a minute and then seem to go out so he got his trowel bent down and turned over the soil and a blast of flame that was under the soil hit him smack in the face and burned off one of his eybrows.

    Never return to a firework once it's lit, even if it is an ant-hill :D
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  • GrazGraz
    edited July 2007
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Did I happen to mention I hate ants :D

    So does my wife. Hysterically. She'll do anything to avoid them, including running onto a busy road, waving her arms around. I'm gonna have to get a leash for that girl! (But thats another story ;) )
  • HonoredShadowHonoredShadow
    edited July 2007
    Yesterday I was thinking the same thing about these ants. i put my washing out and when I came to get it in, it was crawling with flying and non-flying ants. Took me ages to get them all off. But I did not get all of 'em...

    I made the bed and later that night when my gf got into bed she screamed and shot into the bath room and did not come out for 20 mins until I had destroyed every last one of em.

    Shame it was not a tarantula! :)
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