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I'll keep my eye out for them. What makes ants fly, temperature, daylight hours??
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(06-07-2023, 04:51 PM)JJB Wrote: I'll keep my eye out for them. What makes ants fly, temperature, daylight hours??
I've googled and answered my own question, they're triggered by the weather, hot and humid sometime after rain
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Yesterday was our flying ant day
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23-07-2023, 02:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-07-2023, 02:17 PM by JJB.)
We've had some for a couple of days. One nest was under the paving in the cold frame by a raspberry cage. The winged ants were emerging and couldn't get out. Whilst I was picking rasps and slightly camouflaged a young robin was trying g to peck at the winged ones through the glass. Just for robin I opened the coldframe and he had a lovely feast with me watching on.
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I've just disturbed an ant's nest too and out came all the little winged beasties. Hope a robin finds them soon.
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Every time I pick up a big stone in the garden over the last few weeks there seem to be flying ants waiting for the off.
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