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09th Aug 2015

The flying ants have invaded Ireland and we are unified in our disgust

Carl Kinsella

Do they really serve an ecological purpose?

The flying ants are back, and no we’re not talking about some band you’ve not heard of. Apparently all of these ants have been hiding out underground in their eggs, and now that conditions are right, they’ve all come out to have disgusting ant-sex in front of us.

Have they no shame?

https://twitter.com/JeremyDixonFM/status/630428320279171072

Going on Twitter and searching any town in Dublin alongside the phrase ‘flying ants’ has reliably informed us that there are swarms of the little buggers all over the city, getting freaky with one another.

https://twitter.com/jenjensmurf/status/630419024921391104

So, yes, the ants are both disgusting as well as pretty much everywhere, but thankfully all of the males will soon be dead and the females will retreat back underground to lay their eggs before we do this all again about a year from now.

We had to admire Anne Kelly Doyle’s stoic take on today’s plague.

Yes they are, Anne. Yes they are.

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Dublin,Ireland