Have we had flying ant day yet?

As per the title…surely everyone knows what it is, one of my mates thought I was making the whole thing up. Yes, I do understand it’s not a nationally recognized day or anything before someone chips in.

not here

Mostly daddy long legs. Not even any wasps, really.

A what?

Not yet here… earlier today minivader mentioned that it must be soon

not here yet either. It happened as we were camping last summer, two hours of great wierdness: the family next to us were about to pack up and leave, and then it rather suddenly stopped. ❓

Haven’t had one since late 90’s. Miss them 🙁

EDIT:

just over a week ago in Devon

Maybe that’s it, I was living in Torquay and they happened every year. Is it a southern thing?!

Yeah, had it in Loughborough Monday. Was getting divebombed in Tescos car park.

yup… just over a week ago in Devon.. bloody crackin good one as well

Oh yes. Middle of last week in fact.

Renting a cottage in Devon for the week, I was woken up in the middle of the night by one of the dogs whining. When I got downstairs, there were flying ants everywhere and the non flying ones all over the dog.

Fearing a 50’s B movie-style calamity, I grabbed a brush, swept the little buggers out of the room into the garden and then created an impermeable* ring of ant killer around the door.

Googled now.

Not seen it with Ants but seen it with Bees a few times.

Yesterday, NW Leics

Not had one yet. I avoid riding that day…I have enough protein in my diet already thanks.

Yep it was Monday night here in NW Cheshire, about 29degC when I got home @6:30pm and every crack in the drive was swarming out with ants & flying ants.
Left the blackbirds to it as they were having a feast on them 😀

Not down here in Wiltshire yet, and there are lots of ant’s nests about. Raining hard at the mo’ so it might be a day or two more, usually seems to be beginning of August around here, anyway.

Millions of ants out today, loads in the garage which I’ve never seen before… but no fliers that I saw. Bats making mincemeat of the moth population though, really cool to watch.

i had a biblical flying ant day on monday.
so there was a hole in my kitchen ceiling of exactly 4 inch diameter (dont ask) and unbeknown to me there is an ants nest above.
i say unbeknown… that was until i walked in from the garden and thought “its strangely dark in here”
yep, thats cos every windon in the kitchen in covered, and i mean no light getting through, with flying ants and they are raining down through the hole in the ceiling 10 at a time

😯 i shit you not i filled up 2 henry hoover bags 😯

how can they do that? i had not seen a single ant in the kitchen before that

there were about 500million under the top rock on the rock pile up jacobs ladder today

I had a few in the garden on Monday, but not as bad as some years. I live near Stafford.

Not here yet in Southampton.

No wasps either this year.

Now i’m scared.

The lack of wasps is a pretty serious problem. Because they tend to be active earlier in the year than bees they are responsible for pollinating a lot of the early flowering plants.

Mind you, my wife still hates them.

yes its flying ant day here this afternoon

Flying ants have reached the Calder Valley.
<flailing wildly>

They are creeping into London,some biggies around today but oddly just on their own, here and there just alone.

Bees up here not seen any ants.

Bee Porn.

A hundred or so flyers on the drive on Wednesday.

SPOOKY! Just got back from a ride and at the bottom of the San Marino track (north Bolton area) we were covered in the little blighters!

Have never heard of Flying Ant day before though!

thousands came out of nowhere this afternoon in surrey

Yep, today was their day on the Isle of Wight.

And in Staffordshire too. Thousands for about 30 minutes then nothing

Have never heard of Flying Ant day before though!

Really ? It’s a big event if you’re an ant – everyone gets a day off. Including all the workers.

Apparently many of the wasps got killed off in the winter and will take a couple of years for levels to return back to normal again.

If you just can’t wait

SimAnt D/L:)

Not come across any yet, but if Dirtyrider saw them a week ago up Jacob’s Ladder then I prob missed it round here.

ernie_lynch – Member
Really ? It’s a big event if you’re an ant – everyone gets a day off. Including all the workers.

Bloody Unions! 😉

It was yesterday in Ramsbottom.

I didn’t know anything about this until last night. I’d arranged to meet Mrs binners in the pub beer garden for a well earned pint, after an unbelievably hot and sweaty extended ride home. I arrived to find her sat inside, despite it being baking hot! She then explained about the beer garden was full of flying ants in full on Mr luvva luvva mode.

My response was also ‘are you making this up?’

She used to work for the Wildlife trust, and said that they do a survey every year to try and fathom out exactly what it is that influences the flying ants behavior, and understand this quite odd one-day-a-year phenomenon

So those of you who’ve noticed it, if you’ve got a spare minute you could help out by filling out this

Wildlife Trust Flying Ant Survey

fanks 😀

yesterday in southampton too.

yesterday in cheltenham, not biblical proportions though

On Saturday and again yesterday morning, south lakes. The ‘small’ ants nest at the bottom of my front door step is larger than I thought!

large numbers of large ants on last nights ride here in the chilterns.

FAD is either coming, or its been a non event

*closes windows*

Daily Mash – Ant Day declared a national holiday