Flying Ants!!

[PinkvSantaboots]

Omg we have had swarms of them in Hertfordshire in the last few days, the horses are literally covered in them, I can't open any doors or Windows they are awful at the moment.

Any one else got them?

 

[Suby2]

My ponies had loads on them the other day. As quickly as I got them off more landed. Fly spray made no difference.

 

[Shay]

The weather is making them swarm. They are not flies so fly spray won't impact them. You can get them with a pyrethroid based ant killer - but not on a horse's skin! Limited consolation - but they don't bite. They are just exceptionally annoying. The swams should be over in a few days. If you see them on the ground preparing to swarm you can deal with the nest by pouring boiling water on it. Easier to do in a domestic garden than feilds!

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

The weather is making them swarm. They are not flies so fly spray won't impact them. You can get them with a pyrethroid based ant killer - but not on a horse's skin! Limited consolation - but they don't bite. They are just exceptionally annoying. The swams should be over in a few days. If you see them on the ground preparing to swarm you can deal with the nest by pouring boiling water on it. Easier to do in a domestic garden than feilds!

We have had a nest in our garden before but I don't think they are coming from it this year, I googled it last night and apparently the met office could see swarms of them on the satellite that they did initially think it was rain, so I suppose they are just worse this year.

 

[Dasher66]

We have them under our living room floor and they come out whenever the weather is really nice.
This year in May when we had them for weeks I put ant powder down the cracks between the floor boards, it seems to have worked, time will tell - or maybe the weather this week.

 

[skint1]

There are swarms of them around my house, seems like they've nested in some loose bricks under a window!

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I didn't really want to like because they are so grim although they are not out here tonight fingers crossed that's them gone!