Anyone any idea what is happening in my garden ? 😅

Anyone any idea what is happening in my garden ? 😅
by u/oldmansklats in ireland



by oldmansklats

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  3. You are the chosen one! Your sacrifice will be remembered. Make arrangements for the feast tonight!

  5. These are African Flying Ants, they’ll likely destroy your garden from below. The tunnels they make below is beneficial at first, but compared to dry African soil, our soil is soft and they build too many tunnels without tunnel reinforcement and create a sink hole the size of a medium SUV.

    Your best bet is to get a wide soft brush and brush honey across the top of your grass.

  6. It’s the big event the ants have been preparing for all year.

    There will be parades.

    And big female flying ants.

    And small male flying ants. Dead small male flying ants.

  7. Usually happens once a year with a hive. I’ve a very similar pot out front with a shit ton of them in it waiting to fly off. Its termed “flying ant day” but there’s no specific date but I’m looking at that pot now and i know its only a matter of time.

    Get those windows closed OP

  8. Clearly, there’s a concealed cadaver in your garden somewhere.

  9. Disney is filming the new movie of AntMan in your garden 🤣 could be food/waste outside of the garbage store?

  16. Paving stones and footpaths with cracks in the foundations. Ants love em. Use the poison.

  19. Lasius Niger (common black ant). This is the season for their once in a lifetime chance for some shagging aka their nuptial flight. The queen will lay eggs containing a number of new queens and male drones each year.. Once the weather is right, the workers will drag these new queens and males up to the surface where they will take flight and hopefully mate. The male will die a few days later, but a mated queen will land and immediately go to ground and lay eggs.

    She will drop her wings. The wing muscles will be absorbed and will sustain her until her worker ants hatch and take over her care. The queen will never leave this nest again (unless they need to relocate) and will continue to lay eggs for the rest of her life without needing to mate again. The queens are known to live up to 30 years.

    Can’t tell the size of the ant in the picture, but the new queens are significantly larger than the male drones.

    If they are swarming up the inside of your windows then there is a nest inside. Most likely until flooring / behind skirting etc.

    Amazing creature, but admittantly a pain to have in the house. Put down bait stations wherever you see them and keep them in place for a few weeks. The worker ants will pick up the poison powder and carry it back to the nest where it will be ingested by the other workers who help to clean them. There can be >1000 workers in a colony so it takes a while to get them all.

    Sorry for the long post, but I do love me some ants 🙂

  22. The only good bug is dead bug.

    Would you like to know more?

  23. Happens every year up our way, a few days of absolute swarms of them. We always called them piss ants. We used be black with them when we were younger and lived out around the roads for the summer.

  24. That’s why we voted brexit in Britain. Stop the swarms of invaders

  25. Me and my friends unleashed these in our cul-de-sac from a drain once and no joke they covered every car near a tree or bush for two weeks then pissed off… Nasty wee flying ant fuckers

  26. Your ants are swarming.

    I used to live in the south of England. There for some reason, every ant hive swarms on the same day. It’s called “flying and day” and they announce it on weather forecasts on local radio. I knew some people who wouldn’t come into work on flying ant day. Childhood trauma of being covered in ants.

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