Flying ants

[Wormius]

Sometimes throughout the year, they manage to come through a small crack around the door. Only a few get in at a time, buts It's disconcerting when you kill them, go back to what you were doing before, and they replaced again.

Haven't seen them for a while though. Do their numbers erupt around different parts of the city at other times? I think we were seeing them in the far NW late June or early July.

[Inferno099]

In our 10 years in Royal oak NW we've always seen the regular ants in garden & outside property.....

This was 1st time in these years my wife & I saw in backyard & garden in such large amounts of flying ants in thousands.

Maybe it has been before but we were not around to see the phenomenon.

[simmer2]

They always pick a day in the summer where it is humid, no wind and generally overcast. One day and it's over.

I read up on it about 5 years ago. Some years are more than others.

[Peanut]

We had a horrifying swarm yesterday at the side of our house. Broke out the RAID. So many of them are out at once, hopefully it put a major dent in their colony.

Back garden, I'd just leave it. But swarming around the doorjamb... DIE ANTS, DIE.

[To Be Quite Honest]

I was down close to the fish creek park train and there were swarms of birds across Macleod Trail and up towards the train station. It was definitely over a KM and in an L shape. It was fascinating to watch. I had no idea what was causing it until I got close to the train station and the sidewalks were covered with the ants. You couldn't avoid them.

[Northendzone]

No ants here in new Brighton. It is likely a coppeRfield oR Mackenzie towne problem.

[topfiverecords]

They were celebrating the opening of The Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good.

[Knut]

Mosquito's are now the current outdoor overlords

[4X4]

Since it's been mentioned, I guess I'll add that I had ants coming and going through a crack in my front walk, but it was always small, and nothing to really care about. Last week (evening, after rain), I happened to go out to my truck for whatever, and the little ant mound was a disgusting mass of writhing ants growing wings. Suddenly there were 3-4 exits to the underground lair of Satan, and they were just crawling out, with wings, but they couldn't fly yet. I happened to have a can of Raid in the cupboard, so I grabbed it, and napalmed them. They kept crawling out, and I foamed them like a kid with silly string.

It was just nasty. Totally unexpected that the little ant hill that I decided not to care about suddenly became a spawning ground for what looked like Kent Brockman's worst nightmare. I figured it had something to do with all the rain. Flooded out or something? Whatever, they're all dead now.

[To Be Quite Honest]

Then there is always Australia... Jesus...

[Trailer Fire]

Here in the armpit of the world flying ants seem to be kind of rare. However, they seem to seek me out. For whatever reason they terrify me. I almost burned my dads house down a few years ago trying to rid the world of a few more of them.