I am being invaded. I shall go on to the end. I will fight in the conservatory, I

[HoneyDragonWearingLederhosen]

will fight in the kitchen and by the back door. I will fight with growing confidence and with the Miele Air. I WILL defend my home whatever the cost may be. I shall never surrender.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh! Chaaaaaaaaaaarge!

(I am so NBU)

Right send them all to Cat's house then.

You can be a Captain.

At least with wasps you can call in a professional swat team. With flying ants you're own man. You don't know what it's like when they come for you. You weren't there. There's only me and my festive crack and a vacuum. Then they come for you ....

I like Flying Ant Day and we haven't had it this year yet. I feel robbed and cheated.

Big fan. They don't want to get into your house. They're little debutantes and eligible bachelors trying to get to the County Ball.

Ant stop is the only way to go - everytime we have ants we've put them down and the next day the place is like an ant massacre has occured as there are hundreds of dead ones scattered around

Please Hassled. Come join me you weirdo

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I'll join you, but only to go "Cor! Look at that ant! It's flying! Amazing!". Not to go "Die you bastards!".

I haven't seen flying ants for years. just flying pants, another story

Keep Calm and Nipp-On.

I too am waging war here. I found them Up To No Good behind the freezer today and in the dining room they've unearthed a little pile of soil

Last year it was like Zulu in there. Wave upon wave of them. I was singing Men Of Harlech at one point.

I think my whole house has been built on ant metropolis. One day it will crash into a 50 ft crater.

I do highly recommend getting chickens. Since we got four ex battery hens in the back garden no cats have tried to shit there and I haven't seen a single bug, ant, fly or anything.

(I do feed my chickens by the way, in case you start to think they have to attack any living thing that comes near them for food!)

Flying ants are soooo much harder then normal ants to get rid of.

They usually come on the 21st July...although cos our weather is weird nowadays it can be just before or after. I usually have them on and off for about three weeks around that time.

You need to get to the source as their is a queen ant...yuck! The only thing i found that worked was going round the outside of the house and spraying creosote, now been banned i believe. But one thing that really helps is wasp killer called Doff....if you can get as close to the source as possible and put loads of this down it REALLY helps. I went under the plinth in my kitchen and its kept them away..ish so far!

I hate them! It's usually about this time of year when our gardens are heaving. I have emptied nearly a whole container on the nests I found in the garden. I was particularly evil and used a garden fork to really break them open before dumping the white powder down.

I hate them indoors. I hate insects full stop really.

And yet I do have a sneaking regard for ants. They so damn organised. Like an army. No navy though (to quote someone who's name escapes me)

OH NO, is flying ant day dawning upon us all?

Where 'bouts are you? We usually get them dawn Sarf this time of year but suspect the buggars have drowned so far!

I have to shut all the doors and windows when the flying black cloud rises up from our garden and the next two neighbours' gardens too!

Flying ants arent organised they fly irratically then crawl and die!

Try the Doff, honestly ive had them in the kitchen for at least ten years in a row and this is the only thing that works but try to get to the problem and spray it before they hatch....oh yuck!

Also in the south.

They are organised. I've seen them. They had maps and were wearing hats.

I kind of like flying ants.

The whole brilliance of it all intrigues me.

They have such dazzling lives,and touch so many...

haha my flying ants must be under the influence then.....crazy flying

'They have such dazzling lives,and touch so many..'

Are you sure you're not getting them mixed up with Ant and Dec?

Oh.Possibly....

But they are cool aren't they? They just appear,and then, 'POOF' as if by magic they're gone again.

(flying ants not Ant and Dec)

I still remember the moment when it dawned on me that coakroaches can fly. I thought the one I was chasing had evolved into some horror-movie creature. Terrified I was.

cockroaches that is.