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Old 23-08-2013, 10:42 PM #1
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There is one flying around the light, can I pick it up and put it outside or will it bite or sting me?
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Old 23-08-2013, 10:46 PM #2
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..no, they're totally fine..you can just pick it up and put it outside..ants do bite but it's a harmless bite..
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Just slap it with something it'll probably bite you if you touch it ;o
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I killed it with a electric bat thing, it wouldnt keep still to pick it up. glad they're not dangerous
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Yes, touch it and it was attack you and claw your face apart
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Flying ants are up there with winged sharks and long term commitment in my list of fears
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They taste a bit like butter...
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There is one flying around the light, can I pick it up and put it outside or will it bite or sting me?
Anything with teeth, no matter how small the teeth, can bite, not sure you will feel it much though. Don't think flying ants sting, but could be wrong. Anyway they are nasty things, and I am nasty because I would just kill them, I really dislike them.
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Without wishing to be too Charles Darwin, it was unlikely to be a flying ant, and more likely to be a simple house fly.

Maybe it was a fly pretending to be a flying ant?
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This humid time is when flying ants appear
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There was a mosquito in my kitchen yesterday, now they are some freaky ****!
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Since when can ants fly?
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Since when can ants fly?
Since some ants evolved.
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Since when can ants fly?
It was just after St. Patrick smacked the s**t out of the snakes, so the ants all thought "****** this, this fella is a maniac so he is, time to take to the skies, and no mistake"

You can check it out, but that is the historically accurate version I've just given you.
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https://www.societyofbiology.org/get...ing-ant-survey
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Without wishing to be too Charles Darwin, it was unlikely to be a flying ant, and more likely to be a simple house fly.

Maybe it was a fly pretending to be a flying ant?
Flying ants are common, a percentage of most species are winged, they're produced when a colony has enough workers, so they can leave an establish their own, you see them most hot summers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7525028.stm

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Flying ants are common, a percentage of most species are winged:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7525028.stm
I viewed it as a fly, because of the fact it was flying around her light.

It would be strange behaviour for an ant to undertake. They are still colonised, so a rogue one flying around a light didn't seem to fit to me.
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I viewed it as a fly, because of the fact it was flying around her light.

It would be strange behaviour for an ant to undertake. They are still colonised, so a rogue one flying around a light didn't seem to fit to me.
House flys look nothing like ants, so I doubt many would mistake the two.
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House flys look nothing like ants, so I doubt many would mistake the two.
I gave an opinion on the OP. I'm still sure that is the best explanation, or maybe even a mosquito. I have no other data than the initial OP, so neither of us can/will know for sure.

Do you think it's likely that a flying ant was buzzing round her light at a quarter to midnight?
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It was either an ant or a ford fiesta.
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