Flying ant day 2008

rlchew · #26 (**permalink**) 23-07-2008, 10:55 AM

No flying ants for me yet .... and I am higher up than most of you living in a second floor flat

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In fact, I can not remember the last time I saw this. When I was a kid, swarms of flying ants and the flocks of gulls feeding on them was a regular summer event.

Richard

Paul mabbott · #27 (**permalink**) 23-07-2008, 02:00 PM

The ones in my garden haven't flown yet but down the main road they are emerging from several colonies inside a wall!

The Black Rabbit · #28 (**permalink**) 23-07-2008, 02:10 PM

Strangely enough, the ants are just (today), erruping from the ground in their nuptial flights in Rhode Island, USA also so I've been told.
Awwww.... 'tis a small world eh, grapple fans.

TBR

TORTUGA · #29 (**permalink**) 23-07-2008, 02:22 PM

It was a Ant and Seagull fest today in Portishead

mrs fish · #30 (**permalink**) 23-07-2008, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by jdpbristol

Great! Whereabouts exactly in Suffolk?

Ipswich town centre, there were hundreds of quiet gulls in the sky to-day having a feast

Paul mabbott · #31 (**permalink**) 08-08-2008, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

The ones in my garden haven't flown yet but down the main road they are emerging from several colonies inside a wall!

And still I have a colony in the rockery with winged ants .... perhaps they've decided not to move?

mrs fish · #32 (**permalink**) 08-08-2008, 07:27 PM

I found a Red ants nest yesterday and they had alot of eggs , didn't see any winged ants, do the reds have them ?

mrs fish · #33 (**permalink**) 31-08-2008, 02:37 PM

To-day is very hot and humid and we are having another Flying Ant Day

The sky was full of Gulls
( please excuse picture as camera is up the creek and so is my cropping abilities)

jdpbristol · #34 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 10:21 AM

Those pictures are great. I saw large numbers of gulls in Bristol last month when there was a small eruption. Out of interest did you or anyone else video the last emergence?

mrs fish · #35 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 07:41 AM

No I didn't but it would make a good video

Paul mabbott · #36 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 08:00 AM

The garden ones didn't fly until 30th August - same time as some other populations in this area. I'm rather surprised that they're so out of sync - or are they different species? Need to examine a few, obviously