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22-07-2008, 05:03 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hidden in the clover
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| | | Flying ant day 2008
Here in west Berks, the flying ants have errupted out of the ground this afternoon - no surprise really, they've been waiting for these sticky conditions.
Anywhere else?
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22-07-2008, 05:11 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
Saw two batches here in Central London this afternoon |
22-07-2008, 05:18 PM
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
We seem to have two parallel threads on the same thing here .....  http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...nt-swarms.html
When I lived in London I always expected the black ant nuptial flights at the end of the second week of July - indeed, for three years in a row in my locality they irrupted on Swithin's Day - I thought I was going to be able to write a 'rule'  but it's quite variable. |
22-07-2008, 05:28 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
Ditto North Kent. The gulls are out in force snapping them out of the air.
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22-07-2008, 05:32 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hidden in the clover
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
Ah yes. Soz.
Just saw the other thread!
I really must read titles!
TBR |
22-07-2008, 06:35 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hidden in the clover
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
A photo of one of our garden "winged beauties" this afternoon.
Not my best photo ever, but in my defence, I was lying in a seething mass of excited ants at the time.
I'm still picking them off me...!
Click thumbnail and then the image to sharpen a little.
TBR  |
22-07-2008, 07:03 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Suffolk
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
Not flying ant day here yet, maybe to-morrow, it is always a warm day in July  |
22-07-2008, 07:04 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
Not seen any flying Ants in Chatham (kent) yet but loads of Ants are running riot in the garden.
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22-07-2008, 07:07 PM
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
Hi
not flying here yet but the activity has increased.They are running all over so in the next two days I guess.
neil |
22-07-2008, 07:54 PM
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| | | Re: Flying ant day 2008
we've had them in the greenhouse I'm afraid my O.H. got the Kybosh out, I hate to use it as I always think of the film 'Ants' and the love story between a worker and a royal ant, it was a true story wasn't it  
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