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24-07-2011, 06:18 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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| | | Flying Ant Day
Got the first flush of flying ants here in Kent. Any other counties experiencing it? Gulls and swifts feasting above.
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24-07-2011, 06:30 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Gloucestershire
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| | | Re: Flying Ant Day
Funny you mentioned this - it's been a day here too!Six nests flying, including one in the pot next to my patio door so there's ants everywhere.I gather it's something to do with the temperature that sets them off. The seagulls are still screaming around.
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24-07-2011, 06:51 PM
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where are you in kent? here in sittingbourne, kent, there were a few flying ants a few weeks back but although the ants looked busy today there weren't any flying.
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25-07-2011, 10:51 AM
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South Hants had flying ants about two weeks back. |
25-07-2011, 10:53 AM
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I'm in Hayes in Middlesex and we had the same! I had no idea that the 100+ gulls flying above my house were feeding on them!
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25-07-2011, 02:44 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln
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I saw two queens yesterday climbing on grass above a shallow bank near a path, got some pics too. I have seen males and workers for several days now in a small gap by my side door, they are obviously expanding their nest under my foundations as I had masses of soil deposited at the bottom of my stairs. There was gaps at the edges of the stairs at the bottom so they had to be filled, it's an old house!
I had some workers coming out of the path a few days ago, I was stood amongst them trying to get a photo of a fly on the widow sill with ants running up my legs!  I stayed until I got a decent shot with ants nearly up to my waist. 
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25-07-2011, 02:48 PM
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That shows dedication! How did you get rid? 
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25-07-2011, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Hedera  That shows dedication! How did you get rid? | I did an ant dance! ROFLOL!!
Careful inspection and brushing them off, I had some on the inside of my skirt. I think I got a bite under the strap of my sandal as I had a small lump then a huge weeping swelling on the top of my foot for days!!
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27-07-2011, 10:41 PM
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Flying ants yesterday after 4pm,were a distraction to me and a few Migrant Hawkers darted about after them but decided they would not eat them,which they must,there were far to mainy getting in my hair(girl-scream).I had to walk a mile along a forest ride whilst the blighters bounced off me,and my good mates the Migrant Hawkers did nothing.  |
27-07-2011, 10:44 PM
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| | | Re: Flying Ant Day
3 flying ants arrived in my garden today (heard from a Facebook friend that her garden had loads) and this is in Preston, Lancashire.
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