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Flying Ants - Veggie - 21-05-2022
Having disturbed an ant's nest in the GH today and noticed that some were winged ants, I realised that I knew very little about an ant's lifecycle.
Here's something that the Duckduck found - https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-why-winged-ants-swarm-nuptial-flight.html
Fascinating.
RE: Flying Ants - Small chilli - 21-05-2022
That’s a very interesting read. Thanks veggie. I didn’t know lots of that .
RE: Flying Ants - SarrissUK - 21-05-2022
Same - very interesting read! We have lots of ants here, and I don't mind them as long as they stay out of my house, and out of my garden beds. So far so good
RE: Flying Ants - Vinny - 22-05-2022
All I know is that a floating representation of a flying ant catches decent trout at this time of year.
I luurve dry fly fishing to a rise! 
RE: Flying Ants - JJB - 22-05-2022
An interesting read. TBH all I knew about ants was they bite me
RE: Flying Ants - Moth - 23-05-2022
I have red ants in the front lawn. When I first moved here, it was new build and the turf was level with the slab path. Now after forty plus years, in places along the edge of the path, the turf is two to three inches above the level of the path, purely from red ants shifting the soil around as they seek to warm their eggs in the summer sun, and I constantly hit little new built hummocks elsewhere when I mow. They are a pain in more ways than one.
RE: Flying Ants - SarrissUK - 23-05-2022
I have tiny little yellow ants. It stings when they bite! Are they likely to eat my plants? I just saw some next to the cucumbers I planted out today.
RE: Flying Ants - Moth - 24-05-2022
Tiny yellow ants are meadow ants. They mostly stay underground, and feed on the honeydew of root aphids, which they farm. I don't know much about root aphids, but I guess they can't be good in the garden.
RE: Flying Ants - Bren - 24-05-2022
We've got lots of ants they usually stay in the garden but a couple of weeks back they got in the kitchen
took a few days to get rid of them not nice at all.
RE: Flying Ants - Veggie - 06-07-2023
Its Flying Ant day here - about 5 weeks later than last year!