Flying Ant Day 2009
I should have seen this coming: sharp downfall of rain on a hot day.
Fortunately had ant killer down, but quite a few dead ants strewn across my living room floor this morning.
The annual battle has begun, and I'm armed to the teeth.
And strangely in the mood to play the Behind Closed Doors trilogy...
Fortunately had ant killer down, but quite a few dead ants strewn across my living room floor this morning.
The annual battle has begun, and I'm armed to the teeth.
And strangely in the mood to play the Behind Closed Doors trilogy...
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I remeber comming home from school one June and seeing that porch full of flying ants, it's not a nice sight and wost of all I had to walk in there if I wanted to get in the house.
We've also had them in the kitchen in that house too so I know what you are going though.
We used to have a lot of ants I remember the best thing to get rid of ants was a white powder called Borax.
Anyone born before 1976?
Eff off!
Remember it well....they ran out of food and starting biting people too! I remember watching the news and seeing a clip at blackpool beach of running people because the ladybirds were biting them.
gaylords!!
Only seen 2 since I've lived here, once last summer it was dead, but it was still huge, like the ones you see on the news that eat whole crops, and one about a week or so ago buzzing round the ditch out the back of the house. It seemed kind of lost, like it was looking for the rest of the swarm.
Now the crickets round here make Biffa Bacons mother look soft, they're about 7 times the size of the weedy little chirpy things from back home in England. They make a satisfying splat when you squish em' as well :D
The wasps here or hornets or whatever they are are pretty scary, those big weird hangy legs on em' freak me out, apparently a sting off them is supposed to really knack as well.
i thought hornets bit, and it wasn't as painfull as a wasps sting.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7525028.stm
so we are well ahead this year. I remember pavements covered with ants for one day only but nothing so far this year. No greenfly, black fly, nothing.
Fireflies are green-ish and not red-ish ... And they don't continually glow, just faintly blink off and on.
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Oh, fine ... some are redi-ish
NEWS ON LASER EMISSION FROM FIREFLIES
"[Scientists] observed that each light flash from a firefly emits 30 thousand pulses of laser."
They look like mud dobber wasps to me.
Stupid small town hicks! :lol:
"Lightning bugs" ... only pre-six-year-olds call them that over here.
Aye, that's what surprised me. It's usually July 14th +/- 2 weeks (so, July then? Ed).
After being caught out BIG time last year (new house, so wasn't even aware of the phenomena at the time) when my living room floor was *covered* with the little blighters, I stocked up with ant killer in anticipation, already having some laid.
Hopefully they won't come back, but last year they made return trips over a couple of weeks.
First thing is to attract them outside at in an early part of the year. That is if youve got ants in your walls put stuff down outside that will attract them.
If you find ants in your house don't put powder down, most powder will attract other ants. Best thing is to hurt them (a quick flick is ok) but not kill them, this will allow them to return to the nest and mark the trail as dangerrous.
Best stuff to eradicate ants is Nippon, but this is very expensive, an alternative is Borax ground with sugar and then mixed with water to form a paste. The ants will feed on this and take back to their nest and hopefully feed the queen. But again only put this outside to distract from ants coming in the house.
No...here...Quite interesting really and a 'fairly' new resident to these parts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebugs
I get bad ants here every year, usually we stick these little ant traps next to where they come in, it takes a few days, maybe even a week, but after a while they stop coming. It's bloody annoying though. This year we had to empty all the cups and bowls out of one of the kitchen cabinets, and wash the lot. Then we had to throw all the open boxes of cereal away, cos' the little bastards had gotten into them. We had to leave all the stuff out as well and lay ant traps all around the cupboard until they'd gone.
We have a small convection oven down here, I cooked something in it a few months back and could smell burning, there was nothing wrong with my food, so I was just like oh well must be a bit of grease or cheese or something on the bottom of the oven. Well the burning smell went on for a few days. Until I decided to investigate, my oh my! Must've tipped about 4000 crispy cooked ants out of the bottom of it, it was rancid, took frigging hours to clean it up as well. They must've been going inside it to get the crumbs or whatever off the bottom.
What they do here is "inject" (a friend uses an ink-syringe) the antkillingstuff inside of small chunks of chocolate or peanut butter as (apparently) both chocolate and peanutbutter masks the poison and they take the "goodies" to their nest, dying inside out.
Just remind children not to pick up the poisonous candy.
Revenge works quite well, but is also not child friendly. It's just a clear syrup, is extremely sweet, but is quite deadly.
So if there's young un's about not really a good idea, it may also kill dogs and cats.
you're the adolf hitler of the ant world. :-D
The annoying thing is that I've only ever seen them swarm in my bloody living room. I guess seeing swarms outside would look quite cool.
Funny name for either a snack or a bug killer ... I wonder what a Japanese person would say when they see it in a shop.