Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#1
I`ve just been summoned, swarms of flying ants both front and back of the place and next door neighbour`s house. An annual event, they`re everywhere.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
#2
Colin, looks like the macro lens comes out! Look forward to photos!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#3
Bob, the current state of them would be of more interest to Jeane methinks.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
#4
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#5
But if you insist. They are incidently, all up the door and main wall and round the front.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
not reached here yet, if they do arrive they will not be welcomed, i shall be downright rude to them if necessary.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#8
Ahaaaaaaagh! (One for all you animal overs!).
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#9
An annual event as Colin says, this year they are just a little bit early as it usualy happens in the last two weeks of July.
Wet and humid and then the hot weather must have brought them out a tad early.
More and bigger ones are due to emerge yet. Shut yer windows.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
#10
I've got them as well Colin. I watched them emerging from between the spaces in the patio slabs. I put the hose on them but it made no difference, they just flew away, never attempted to come indoors though. Food for the birds I suppose.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#11
This one never made it, still with it's wings on it was back to the nest and re-cycled.
After they take off and land for the first time they loose their wings.
and start looking to set up a new colony.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
#12
On hot days in the summer the green woodpecker visits our lawn for the ants. Today there was a pair of green woodpeckers, they came right up to the french windows and looked in at us, seemed very tame. Then one of them stood opposite a collared dove on the bird bath and had a staring-match and stand-off with it. What huge powerful beaks they have (the green ones I mean). I think they must have had a nest nearby. They really do have a good go at the ants in the grass, and sometimes stay quite a while having a feed.
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#13
We had a severe infestation of ants and flying ants in and around our conservatory last week.
All gone now, thanks to ant powder and spray, but so many to kill - the corners were black with them.
There's a few in the garden still - in the lawn, but nothing to worry about.
Roger
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
- Posts: 778
#14
Ohh dear.. my german shepered is going to be in the garden snapping at them... or whimpering in the corner!!
Not too many here in Faversham.. but i am prepared.. too darn hot in my flat unfortunately so windows all open!!
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
