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It's Flying Ant Day!

LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
in The potting shed
Just been out and was immediately surrounded.  Have come back in to let them do what they do.
I wish I was a glow worm
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I was born in Tanganyika and looked after by a native "aya" while my parents cared for lepers.  In flying ant season the locals all caught as many as they could and ate them live.  What they couldn't eat they fried for later.  Apparently I just followed suit and did what they all did.  Wouldn't do it now.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    How big were they?   The ones here don't seem worth the trouble!  LOL!
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited August 2018
    African termites or white ants so yes, bigger.  This was over 60 years ago.......;;
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    edited August 2018
    Must be a different day in this part of the UK,I haven't seen any yet.The Spanish ones were a lot bigger!
    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I haven't seen any yet and not many ants nests as far as I can see


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    I've got a few ants nests in the garden.  I try to avoid going near them as ant bites are painful.  But a few times I've pulled up a weed without realising there's a nest beneath it.
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I wasted 20 minutes on Thursday watching a - colony? swarm? clump? whatever - taking to the air with a handful of big dragonflies swooping about and eating themselves practically to a standstill
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I knew they were about to start flying as a load of seagulls were silently flying overhead - that's the only way l know, as normally the gulls are squawking away. Sure enough, masses of ants were soon coming out of the lawn. Fascinating.  



  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Took the doggies for a late walk yesterday at dusk and spotted a writhing black mass across the back lane.   Thousands of black ants on the move, on foot.  Made me think of all those 70s films about soldier ants eating everything and everyone in their path.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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