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BAD NEWS, EVERYONE. It’s Flying Ant Day. And everybody’s celebrating.*
Large areas of Ireland are currently being terrorised by swarms of dozy flying ants that land on you, shed their manky wings everywhere, and are completely impervious to being swatted away.
Even our nation’s leafiest suburbs are not safe from this menace.
All over the country, people are being forced to walk around with their lips gummed together to avoid the little b*****ds getting in their mouths.
And in the UK, families have reportedly been forced from their homes.
Sorry.
It’s actually because flying ants are “single-purpose sexual missiles”.
Yep. Flying Ant Day is linked to the way ants reproduce and spread. In fact, it’s technically known as “nuptial flight” – which sounds very romantic, but is really about ants growing wings and landing on you.
During nuptial flight, ants sprout wings and scatter from their colony to try and found new ant nests in the surrounding area. Male ants – which according to Bert Holldobler, author of The Ants, are “quickly converted into single-purpose sexual missiles” – mate with the new queens in flight.
The new queens then land, shed their wings (possibly all over you) and try and start a new colony.
Very possibly, yes.
It’s to do with this humid weather we’re having. When the weather conditions are right, numerous ant colonies swarm simultaneously – this increases the chances of the ants meeting and inbreeding with other ants from different colonies.
Exactly.
Well, not much. It will end by itself in a day or two.
Some people are taking heart from the fact that humanity’s old enemies the seagulls are on the case. They love to eat flying ants.
But the bad news is, seagulls are thought to get ‘drunk’ when they binge on the insects.
Fraid so. Some ants’ bodies contain formic acid, which some biologists have suggested could contribute to loud and excitable behaviour from the birds.
“Some of the slightly odd behaviour we are seeing could be as a result of these ants – it could leave the gulls slightly drunk,” Dr Rebecca Nesbit told the Telegraph last year.
It’s possible because we know that some ants produce formic acid, and it could be having an effect. The gulls can also get very excited and loud when they eat the ants, so that could be a contributing factor.
Basically, yes. See you Thursday or thereabouts?
*Everybody who is an ant.
Written by Michael Freeman and originally published on DailyEdge.ie
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This is result of letting a cult like group involve into our way of life support by a blind and deaf pc brigade. It to late for change Ireland has little hope and maybe some other countries. The UK is finished it be very hard task to undo what has grown there.
@: you mean Christianity?
@: are you talking about jehovahs? Mormons?
Actually they are not that bad once you get to know them
Admittedly they have some odd customs with blood and marriage and beliefs ;-)
Returning Islamic State Jihadis popping back to receive their benefits.
Send them back to their Islamic state and let e SAA, Kurds, Syriacs, Yazidi, Iraqis finish them off….https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/36225430/yazidi-children-held-by-islamic-state-found-in-hospital-basement-in-mosul/#page1
More Rats leaving the sinking ship that is isis . There’ll be plenty more of this type of arrest in the coming weeks , however Mayor Khan will try and get them housed in Chelsea , in those new 1.8 million pound council houses .
Don’t be daft. Sadiq Khan’s alright. And the last thing he wants is more terror tearing through the streets of London.
@Mick Tobin: Don’t be daft ? This is the man who wanted the president of the United States banned because he had put a temporary ban on 6 countries , while the mayor himself when he was a lawyer defended Islamic militants , pushed for Louis Farakhan to be allowed into the country , even though he had called for a genocide of white people , had shared speaking platforms with convicted islamic terrorists , has spoken at muslim meetings where isis banners have been flown , called moderate muslims ”Uncle Toms” and says the Met Police do not have enough funds to follow returned Jihadis , even though he took money and personnel from their resources to set up a unit to chase down people who said things against islam on social media platforms .
@Ken Hayden: I will look into this, but contexts do matter. The mayor of Rotterdam, also a muslim, has also been accused of sharing the stage with people with radical ideas, but he in fact told them to p*** off elsewhere if they didn’t like it here.
Khan is right to shun divisions in the city, and my feeling’s been that this has been behind what he’s done, at least recently.
But sure, it pays to be critical, and I’ve taken note of what you just said. However, I now need to badly go and play Irish tunes in the pub, so I bid you goodbye for now.
@Ken Hayden: defended Islamic militants? Can you clarify whether that was as a lawyer or as a citizen? Also can you clarify that it wasn’t perpetrators of 9/11 as was previously stated on this site?
@Mick Tobin: He was a legal consultant for Zacarius Moussaoui , the shoe bomber .
There are links here to various news reports and video clips , if you follow them you will open up a trail . I will give you two links , one about Khan and the other about the Quilliam foundation .
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-27/london-mayors-ties-extremism-call-commitment-fighting-terror-question
https://medium.com/@jonasspooner/blowback-in-manchester-and-why-quilliam-must-be-investigated-f9472be1f26c
@Ken Hayden: In the second link you will also find a connection to Irish Jihadis . I probably couldn’t say the name here , but you will find it .
Why even entertain them. Round up their family and put them all on a flight back to where they came from. Free flight home, everyone is a winner. Especially the UK taxpayer.
@KingBen: put their families back on flights to Leicester and Birmingham?
@Richard Lippy Collins: no, they are not from Leicester or Birmingham. I’d suggest the middle east somewhere, doesn’t really matter. Just out of the country that welcomed them and gave them free houses, education, health and opportunities.
@KingBen: yep,lock stock,and barrel,,,total
Muslim and western values are not compatible we must stand up and defend our native cultures before Islamic domination prevails . it’s simple, Europe must wake up. Many parts of France,Britain,Holland and Belgium it’s too already too late . Ultimately it’s a numbers game, we must not ever allow what’s happened in Germany(2015) to happen elsewhere or else it’s all over
There should be super severe law for that, if found connected to terrorist cell they should have UK citizenships scraped and sent back to Turkey, never allow them back. With law like this all terrorists to be will think twice.
Those pesky atheists at it again…. Oh wait
Islam is to spread in every country and this is meant to be a good thing….. come on cop on, their way of living not suited for western life sure most of them say it themselves, only one solution if you want to fit in adjust to the country you choose to live in and respect our Christian value and our country, nobody’s saying convert but just remembered your choose to move to Christian Europe, and stop playing the race card when you don’t get your ways….
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