Yes!Dublin posters - has anyone noticed the amount of ants about?
Yes!
Ant powder dealt with the ones burrowing under our cobblelock anyway.
Maybe we should be buying them presents instead of exterminating them so?the quaintly-titled nuptial flight
In general I would agree. But when swarms of ants dig out the sand under the cobblelocking and thereby undermine it I reach for the powder I must admit. Anyway - as you say - they'll be back again.I honestly don't get the fascination with waging chemical warfare on insects in Ireland - as posters above have mentioned, you can nuke them one year and they'll be straight back again next year - live and let live I say!
Anyway - as you say - they'll be back again.
Dirty!The males, indeed, have been waiting some weeks for the opportunity provided by the emergence of the females now that weather conditions are right.
The swarms occur when the male and female ants conjugate. Eventually the females will drop to the ground when tired of conjugating - it would be unusual if they mated with more than three partners.
"Like bees, I am afraid the males are little more than flying receptacles for sperm," said Dr Brown.
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