Any one else got loads of flying ants??

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Must be their optimum conditions today to release their princes and princesses!
Here in South Yorkshire it is very warm and very still and there are thousands flying and crawling around.
I don't mind them as they are good for the garden but I'm keeping a coaster over my wine glass 😁

Loads arrived here in my paddling pool on Kent today, weird as our ants from our own nest flew off a week or two ago .

Yes, loads in north Hampshire.
I've been picking them out of the paddling pool.

Yes! I’m in East Herts. They decided to do their thang just as I sat down in the garden with a cup of tea and a book. Bastards.

And Oxfordshire!

And in Gloucestershire 🐜

Loads in Stoke, the nicest evening of the week and I'm stuck indoors witht he windows shut

Yes, it is flying ant day today!
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18618458.brace-flying-ant-day-york/

Yes ... in my kitchen, hundreds of them I had to call pest control, found a colony under the pantry cupboard. Nice £90 well spent today! Sick of them and normal ants now !!

And Warwickshire!

Loads here. Bedfordshire

Good for the garden?!
I loathe the creatures, when they aren’t busy farming aphids to weaken and disease my plants they are busy making nests in potted plants (which can damage, sometimes kill them) and taking bites out of my fruit 😡

Yes on Lincs / Notts border.
Today was the Second time, they were about last Friday too.

Erm... OP... they don’t eat the aphids, they FARM the aphids for the sweet sap they suck from your plants. Eliminate the ants and there goes the aphids (hopefully). They care for them in a symbiotic relationship. Get yourself some ladybird larvae! I bought 50 for about £10, my greenhouse is now 90% aphid free.

Yes in Derbyshire too!!

How long does it last? My garden is moving

Northamptonshire. I've never seen them before. I heard of this flying ants day for the first time today too when I discussed it with someone. My garden has been overrun with them.

Is it one of the plagues??? 2020 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Three weeks ago in London. Filled the darn padding pool.

House in Northumberland covered , now also covered in powder. There seemed to be more normal ants too

I don't mind if they farm the aphids, just know that my fruits in the greenhouse are growing superbly and I've never ever been bitten/stung by an ant. They are welcome on my patch 😁

Loads in Cheshire today also

Yes, loads just north of you.
We did mass extermination. Cant stand ants.
Had 1000s of them turn up in the kitchen cupboards a couple of times a year in our old house. Horrible things.

Loads today in Coldingham on the cliff. S.e. Scotland so quite a way from the rest of you

It’s known as ‘flying ant day’ happens once every year (give or take a day) where the queen ant does a runner and the submissive ants follow her and chaos ensues.

My money is on tomorrow night. Tonight was a trial run. Those with BBQs planned beware as the weather conditions are near on perfect.

@Nomorewineever nope that is not the case!
Flying ants are produced by the Queen and colony so they can fly away and procreate with others from different colonies to avoid in breeding. The resident Queen does not fly away.

I don't mind if they farm the aphids
You won’t be saying that if you try and grow something outside and all the leaves curl up then drop off and large volumes of fruit are ruined either by dropping because of the stress caused by the aphids or by ants biting holes in them!

just know that my fruits in the greenhouse are growing superbly
I don’t have a greenhouse but they are absolute menace in my garden!
Their numbers are out of control.
They are never happy in the garden either and try and take over my house.
Sometimes I feel bad about squashing a lone ant that wonders in my house so let it live.
It then repays me by moving the whole bloody colony in 😡
I despise them!