South Shields Sanddancers Forum

what the hells up with all the ants in simonside, i have never seen anyhing like it i my life, at one point yesterday 10000s of them came into the streets and sprouted wings and took to the air, it looked like a horror movie is pilot to blame for this ?

jimmywizz wrote:what the hells up with all the ants in simonside, is pilot to blame for this ?

That creased me
They're all over the place Jimmy, 2 weeks ago I took wife and kids to the Lakes, when we got back we were inundated with flying ants, they were in every room. It was that bad in some parts they looked more like mould because they were clumped together, all you can do is hoover them up and spray the whole house but you have to keep on top of them for a couple of days as we found out, I looked them up and found this from 2004 if anyone wants to have a look (don't worry Global, it should load quickly for you as well).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3934591.stm

Huh

I've finished with ants for now, I might get a wormery instead!

Sounds nasty, Jimmy. You can keep them. Maybe all that
rain kept them at bay til now.

The closest we come to that is Junebugs. Luckily, they don't
last long. In the woods, the entire ground can be covered with
the dead ones so you can't take a step without hearing them
crackling underfoot.

Pilot wrote:I've finished with ants for now, I might get a wormery instead!

Try this hill at Lampton Pilot.

hmmmf........a thawt ant lived doon tyne dok................

hallo marrasis......gettin better slowly...........still in the mud tho.. ....thinkin of movin bak to shieldz............dont no wen tho.........got a lot of thingz to sort first.......you mite just see me at the sandancer nite out one year........dont say a didnt warn yuzz.......
hope ya well now..........

Eughhhhhhhh....This posts made me all itchy! At the daycare centre where I work part time we were working in the garden, and I was turning of the compost heaps to get the good compost at the bottom..And found a flying ants nest..They were everywhere. I didn't get bitten but had to go have a cold shower afterwards cos I was itchy with the thought of them

Betty - i just looked up Junebugs on images in Google, they look horrible!

Has anyone noticed all the little piles of sand in between the paving stones and all the colonys that are thriving in them ?.

axeman, nearly all the walls in parts of sima have that sand from that ants "we are all doomed i tell you"

As long as it's just the pavement cracks.........

And here's me thinking ants were clever Living in Simonside you say!!!!!!!

Pilot wrote:And here's me thinking ants were clever Living in Simonside you say!!!!!!!

I'm logging off now before Jimmy logs on

aye proper charver ants, they drink bella and hot wire your car

they'll have flown in from the nook then !

andysfootball wrote:they'll have flown in from the nook then !

Yeah.... via Biddick Hall

If the Ants are in Simonside, where the hell is Adam?