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Offline Bar Wench

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Flying ants!?!?!
« on: July 15, 2007, 01:36:49 PM »
Do you get them in this country? Because I swear that things have suddenly started to evacuate the earth!  eeek:

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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2007, 01:37:44 PM »
give it another few weeks and the crane fly invasion will start

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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2007, 01:40:07 PM »
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Nope, is deffo flying ants. Had a very brief rain storm and now the ground looks as though it is moving!  eeek: Big thunder too!  eeek: scared2:

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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2007, 01:44:29 PM »
Yes we do get flying ants in this country.

My wife's late Grandmother used to get confused (don't we all with age) and once poured cold water on an ants nest and threw a kettle of boiling water at an intruding cat that she spotted digging in her garden!
The ants survived to fight another day but we never saw the cat again  eeek:

The old girl was in her nineties so I guess it's excusable.
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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2007, 01:45:37 PM »
Boilng water on ants nests? Does that sort them out then?  rubschin:

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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2007, 01:46:39 PM »
Boilng water on ants nests? Does that sort them out then?  rubschin:

Yup!

So does Jeyes Fluid if you have any to hand.
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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2007, 02:02:17 PM »
F-ing hell! The sky has opened! It's torrential!  eeek:

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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2007, 02:08:45 PM »
F-ing hell! The sky has opened! It's torrential!  eeek:


Told you so last night .... but would you listen??
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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2007, 02:09:50 PM »
 redface: noooo: redface:

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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2007, 03:02:09 PM »
Boilng water on ants nests? Does that sort them out then?  rubschin:

Bloody hells bleedin' bells Wenchy. eeek:
Didn't you do basic general science at school?

I think you'll find that boiling water tends to eradicate virtually every living creature known to man.
Make sense when you think about it dunnit?
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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2007, 03:05:28 PM »
Nah... Dettol Kitchen Spray is the thing for ants - flying or otherwise mobile...  ;)
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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2007, 03:06:01 PM »
Boilng water on ants nests? Does that sort them out then?  rubschin:

Bloody hells bleedin' bells Wenchy. eeek:
Didn't you do basic general science at school?

I think you'll find that boiling water tends to eradicate virtually every living creature known to man.
Make sense when you think about it dunnit?
If in doubt, fill the bath up with some, and jump in....on 2nd thoughts cus I don't really trust your integrity/intelligence anymore....DON'T! noooo:

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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2007, 03:27:09 PM »
When we once lived on your side of the water we seemed to keep on having problems with wasp infestations, (1) building nests in the loft, (2) garage and also (3) in between the bricks of the house under the kitchen window.

For problem (1) we called in the local exterminator experts who climbed up in the loft and sprayed some gunk around and then VERY QUICKLY fell back through the loft door stating ?Don?t go up there for a while mate!?

For problem (2) we took things into our own hands (joint venture on this one) and whilst I held the large bin bag Mr. Brave Barman knocked the nest into it and bish bosh job?s a goodun

 For problem (3) Barman decided to solve it himself one day when I was out by filling up the holes in the bricks they were getting though with bath sealant!!!! Came back to hear loads of really p*****d off wasps humming around inside the bricks of the house and see loads of equally p*****d off wasps outside the kitchen window trying to get in to save those who had been Bathsealed????.



Have to hasten to add that none of these actions would have been taken if the offenders were those nice little bee thingy?s but wasps, YUCK, no good to man nor beast (that I know) so I don?t feel guilty.

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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2007, 03:38:52 PM »
F-ing hell! The sky has opened! It's torrential!  eeek:

Just had that too... whilst on my way to Sainsburghers  redface: . It's almost tropical... stair rods, up-rain, steaming tarmac... ah, and now the sun's out again  ::)

At what point do we start factoring in the Monsoon season? scared2:
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Re: Flying ants!?!?!
« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2007, 03:48:52 PM »
Do you get them in this country? Because I swear that things have suddenly started to evacuate the earth!  eeek:

Yes - and how!

On a particular date previously arranged between them and god, they ALL fly out of the holes in the ground at exactly the same time.

Last year when the weather was somewhat better, I saw them all blitzing out and when we went for a drive later the same thing was happening all over the countryside.   By the next day they had all vanished again.   ...and I forgot all about them again, until now.

It must be some kind of party day.