Flying Ant Day 2014

[boxtops]

It's that day again, the atmospherics must be just right in heat and humidity.... here come the flying ants, hatching under the paving slab in my garden!

[ubasses]

You are lucky they are in the garden. Just about to go out last week and I spotted a large swarm on our window sill inside. We have been spraying and hoovering up the dead everyday since.

[Brenden]

They make me freak out boxtops .

[Tilly2]

Oh, I'll go and have a look at mine.

[boxtops]

We only get them one day a year, and they always emerge under the same paving slab :-)

[Tilly2]

No, mine are not flying. Having said that, it's not humid here. It's very hot but there's a nice breeze blowing every now and again.

[Tilly2]

Ours are under a slab on the back steps. We have to keep the back door closed when they do emerge.

[boxtops]

We have hundreds of spiders' webs in the back garden at the moment, I have to keep apologising to the spiders if I have to brush their web out of the way. The compost bin is a fave spot today.

[TheWinner]

I absolutely detest ants. I hate them with a vengeance! We have had some under our paving stones too. The only thing that works, is to fill a bucket of hot water and add about three big capfuls of Dettol disinfectant. Flood the area and all the cracks where the ants are seen. It kills them immediately and leaves a strong smell which puts them off returning. Keep doing it whenever you see another ant. You may have to do it many times, but it is so worth it. Also flood around he entrance to your doors and anywhere else you can think of to keep them away from your home. Eventually, if you keep up, they will all have gone by day four. The ant powders, sprays and bait do not work but Dettol does.

[Tilly2]

I don't kill things. I couldn't do that.

[tonyav]

Mmmmm, that time again is it.

[whirlyhurly]

I was once told that spraying urine also deters ants, but I've yet to try that.

[boxtops]

I don't want to kill them. TW - unless they are red ants, which bite me, I live and let live.

The poor little sods are likely to have been washed away in tonight's storm now, anyway, before they have a chance to fly off and do what they have to do!

[Elina]

TheWinner, thanks, I have this problem every year.

[jno]

ours were about three weeks ago. Where you are, they're probably waiting till there's a fair wind for France before they emerge.

[TheWinner]

Boxy, I, also, live and let live most of the time, I scoop up little spiders and put them outside, I rescue abandoned animals, but I can't stand ants. They once came in our house.
If you ever open a cupboard and find them in your food, or make a cup of tea and find them running round in your sugar, etc etc etc, you would think different. Never ever again!

[TheWinner]

Elina you are welcome, keep doing it, till they have gone.

[cupotee2]

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/ant-stop-bait-station.asp?partner=fr&partner=Sh&;gclid=CLuA3cjO0b8CFQEUwwodBVgA5g

Place a few of these Ant Bait Stations about the area and indoors if necessary. Your ants will soon disappear .

They give me the creeps.

[tamborine]

use this....great for ALL flyers, bees, fleas etc.

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Westland-Eraza-Ant-Killer-Powder/p/222132?CAWELAID=120135120000005165&CAGPSPN=pla&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&;utm_term=&;utm_campaign=Product+Listing+Ads&tmcampid=104&tmad=c&tmplaceref=&tmcustom=mkwid|W5fPyZGt_dc|pcrid|7531858372|&gclid=CMqS1M3Q0b8CFSTMtAodG2sAsg

[Tilly2]

I have just been out in the garden and noticed the flying ants emerging. Then, to my utter amazement literally hundreds of black headed gulls appeared in the sky and appeared to be feasting on something in the air. I have just googled it and that is what the gulls do. It was an amazing site. They looked beautiful in the sunlight. What a phenomenon!

[pastafreak]

I think they just hatched out here today. Walking back from the bus stop, they were all over the pavement,and in my hair.