they are every where how bad isit near your areas? im in wakefield west yorkshire and they are just every where

we have a big nest at the end of my office building,there awfull we can see them out of the windows,

think il sleep at the office not going out there today

we have none.

there is one week during the year that females fly away to try and start their own colonies.

jug said:

there is one week during the year that females fly away to try and start their own colonies.

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I was on the roof removing tiles night (my roof, my tiles before you ask) and there were millions of 'em flying about....

I looked it up on Wikipedia this morning as I was a bit intrigued as to what they were at....

Turns out, there are winged Females (the queens) and Males (the males are very small compared to the females). Upon leaving the nest, they mate in the air and then the queens land, shed their wings and run about looking for a nest site....Sometimes they land a few metres from their original nest, other times it's a lot further.

Pretty cool I thought....Until I realised I was reading about Flying Ants on the internet....

ThisBitterPill said:

Pretty cool I thought....Until I realised I was

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... on your roof in the middle of a huge flying ant orgy.

p.s. kill it with fire.

ThisBitterPill said:

Pretty cool I thought....Until I realised I was reading about Flying Ants on the internet....

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yeah i did and thought the same :doh:

did you get rid of them off the roof or just let them carry on

Hellcat said:

... on your roof in the middle of a huge flying ant orgy.

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Tis the Ant mile high club:yuck:

saw loads yesterday.

also had about 50 flies in my kitchen. i went newspaper mad

richieboy said:

did you get rid of them off the roof or just let them carry on

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Most of them were flying off again so I left 'em to it....

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Most of them were flying off again so I left 'em to it....

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just been outside and they have all dissapeared,hmmm wonder if they have flown off or its because its not as warm as earlier

Loads of the bloody things in Thornton Heath, South London last night. The car was covered

loads of them round here, there horrible creatures..... and we live right by the side of a field as well

we find fire is fun

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we find fire is fun

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i did this with a massive fly and burnt the string on my blinds

Yup, just had loads of them out in our street when I got back from the beach!

But within the hour all the flying ones are away and only a few of the smaller ones kicking about!

No doubt they'll end up in my garden tomorrow since they are that close!

There are LOADS of them round here, every time I go outside they're swarming about

I found the nest before they'd flown away so i poured boiling water on the nest

we found a small one in garden we used paraffin

They all do this 1 day a year, and you never see em otherwise Give them a break!

flipping farmers are working on there fields with whatever machines they use... causing all the flys and moths and whatever creatures live thee to head this way now!

Tough tits Josh. Give em ole farmers a brake