Flying ant survey

[roaljodaka]

Hi all, just went outside now to see flying ants crawling around, so clicked on google and there is a site for reporting seeing them as they are studying their pattern, apparently Millions of flying ants are taking to the air in Cambridgeshire, after all this hot and humid weather, oh and please don't shoot the messenger 

 more: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/In-sex-invasion-flying-ants-launch-aerial-love-in-with-huge-swarms-seen-in-Cambridgeshire-20140717144521.htm#ixzz37qSfTUcz

[Val Beechey]

That's all we need. We seem to have had a plague of horse flys this year. Combine the 2 and you have misery.

I'll have to get busy with the boiling water  beastly little critters.

Val

[dances with badgers]

oooh you nasty pasty anty val boiling water oooh
 thought you were a star child hippy type

[chantalpoole]

got bitten twice by horseflys a few weeks ago and i still have the bite marks now !!
i felt both of them aswell nasty bitey buggers !!

[Chef Geoff]

You need to go detecting with Taff as he always seems to get their attention which is a bargain as they leave everyone else alone they are nasty beggars they don't actually bite they have a bladed needle like probosus that actually cuts a round hole out of you......yuk!

[jojo]

Boiling water!  I told my husband off today for that, there an essential part of the ecosystem.  Tut tut.

[jojo]

Only joking.

[WEBBER]

This event is called flying ant day and happens every year when all the young Queens leave the nest to start new colonies !!

[carling2]

don't know about flying ants,,but im fed up with rabbits ,,they've eaten me peas,beans ,cauliflower,etc,,saw a squashed 1 outside me yard yesterday thinks yippee the pesky wabbit is dead only to see another 1 in the yard 20 mins later,,and the mice,,don't mention the mice the garden looks like surface of the moon mouse holes everywhere,,bloody hate nature at the mo.

[Chef Geoff]

don't know about flying ants,,but im fed up with rabbits ,,they've eaten me peas,beans ,cauliflower,etc,,

You want to put a combination lock on you freezer Paul it's a well known fact that rabbits are rubbish with numbers

[jayhay69]

i did notice a lot of the flying ants were carrying smaller ants,and there was others that looked like small wasps anyway all of them i cought are now inside my koi carps bellies

[Dryland]

ROFL Geoff

[Val Beechey]

I think the wet winter and warm spring have made a big difference to the  insect population this year. There seem to be more of everything.
This years crop of potatoes have had a hammering from slugs but not the ordinary ones. Much to my surprise I've discovered there are several varieties of slugs (Great)  I've lost about a quarter of the Maris Peer to Keel Slugs. Nasty little brats that actually live under the soil.  Done some looking up on them and it seems the only way to get their numbers down is to water Nematodes onto the soil in the spring.
I do have a cure for snails though. I pick them off the beans most mornings and throw them, as hard as I can, over the hedge and into Folly Farms field the other side of the lane.  Small pay-back for the Lions.

Val

[Dale]

 
I do have a cure for snails though. I pick them off the beans most mornings and throw them, as hard as I can, over the hedge and into Folly Farms field the other side of the lane.  Small pay-back for the Lions.

Val
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Nice one Val 

[handyman [Alan}]

a good method of rabbit self extermination, is for you to lay out a set of random bricks onto which you sprinkle a fair amount of pepper.

Mr rabbit will approach the brick, sniff and when it sneezes will headbutt the brick, resulting in instant death! 
















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