Nice one antsLots of ants in this current hot weather. Very small ones that appear just about anywhere, on the tiles outside dismembering a spiders body
Buying coke for ants is a wee bit extravagant, no?Must get some more of that white powder that wipes them out.
It's their reward for eating the spiderBuying coke for ants is a wee bit extravagant, no?
Nah, definitely plotting something I reckonLooks like they are both eating the little blob of what looks like bird shit
Ants are one thing I've not seen at all here. There must be some but can't say I miss them after the battles I used to have down south with the bastards building nests everywhere
Indoor or outdoor ants? I tried the nematodes that supposedly stop them making nests nearby, can't say they made any noticeable difference but then my ant problem was pretty extreme - I'm talking whole patches of open ground that were just a solid, seething mass of ants before you even started digging, and nests like that every few feet in places. Afraid I did eventually end up just killing a lot of them (not that even that seemed to make much difference for long)What is to be done about this??
I’ve got an increasing problem with ants. I hate to kill things but I may have to be that person.
whats a slow worm?
It's the argh whats that then SO deals with it lol. Apart from.the one I hit with a mower accidentally which was messy very briefly.I don't know what is a slow worm?!
(It's a legless lizard...looks like a snake)
That looks like a Rosemary Beetle - native to Southern Europe but now becoming established in the UK especially the SE, and a pest to gardeners - likes to munch its way through rosemary, lavender, thyme and sage.
It is a glorious little creature, but it's going to eat your herbs!
You are saying this like it's a bad thing.Also apologies, my brain is filled with Bumblebee Facts right now and I've started regurgitating them in a few threads.
If it's any consolation, N also got a bit of a Bumblebee Data Dump when I got home, and as he works nights he was only half awake and I was talking at him![]()
Only newly hatched and mated queens tend to survive the winter anyway, if you had any and they were able to find somewhere to hibernate then that is the best you can expect reallyNot sure our polytunnel bumblebees will have survived the tunnel losing its skin and then being full of snow this winter![]()