The wings of Angels - Not!

[Cdn_Gringo]

The rains that have been forecast for the past week finally arrived last night. As far as I can tell it rained for most of the night and there are still intermittent showers about this morning. The rains brought with them a literal plague of flying ants or maybe they are termites. This happens often here when it rains. I went to put the dogs outside this morning and the ground that I could see in the early morning light was literally completely covered with detached sets if wings. You see these ants shed their wings when they settle back to the ground. These wings are light lacy things and blow around easily in the slightest breeze of even when just walking past them. Once they get into your house it takes forever to sweep them all up and they get into and onto everything. So if it stops raining, lots of work later on sweeping outside to get the wings away from the doors so they stay outside except of course for the ones that stick to the feet of the dogs. The pool is going to take a lot of work. The surface is covered by a near complete blanket of these things.
Rain is a necessary evil but these detached ant wings are just nature's cruel way of making a tremendous amount of arduous and time consuming cleanup work. Not my favorite job for sure.

 

[HS10]

This is the time when you find out if your doors are airtight . If not then they will enter from the smallest openings and be indoors.
As for the pool , my experience is if the pool light is on then you end up with the mess you have. If the pool light is off then not.

 

[Seamonkey]

I teach online and I start at 4am each morning. I need good lighting and these flying ants love light. I was covered with them during my first 2 classes and my office is a complete mess. It is absolutely disgusting and I need to keep smiling throughout the ordeal.

 

[Russell]

We got the rain at 0300hrs and it is still falling....the ant wings make for good addition to the garden that will be planted this week finally.
I had an old sea captain who gave his first speech to his crew upon joining the ship as captain ''Gentlemen'' says he''every pleasure has a pain''.

WE need the rain we bear with the insects.
A cycle of life.

 

[zoomzx11]

Always wondered are they ants or termites, heard both before.
Orkin website says its hard to tell the termites from ants without a magnifying glass.
Ants have a pinched abdomen and termites are straight bodies.
However they got inside the termites ate every bit of non caioba wood in the house.
Doors, cabinets, shelves, furniture, the whole magilla.
Replaced it with metal except furniture.
Dominican termites go through pine like pork through a goose.

 

[CristoRey]

The rains that have been forecast for the past week finally arrived last night. As far as I can tell it rained for most of the night and there are still intermittent showers about this morning. The rains brought with them a literal plague of flying ants or maybe they are termites. This happens often here when it rains. I went to put the dogs outside this morning and the ground that I could see in the early morning light was literally completely covered with detached sets if wings. You see these ants shed their wings when they settle back to the ground. These wings are light lacy things and blow around easily in the slightest breeze of even when just walking past them. Once they get into your house it takes forever to sweep them all up and they get into and onto everything. So if it stops raining, lots of work later on sweeping outside to get the wings away from the doors so they stay outside except of course for the ones that stick to the feet of the dogs. The pool is going to take a lot of work. The surface is covered by a near complete blanket of these things.
Rain is a necessary evil but these detached ant wings are just nature's cruel way of making a tremendous amount of arduous and time consuming cleanup work. Not my favorite job for sure.

I know a lot of Dominicans who would gladly
trade your problems for theirs.

 

[bob saunders]

I teach online and I start at 4am each morning. I need good lighting and these flying ants love light. I was covered with them during my first 2 classes and my office is a complete mess. It is absolutely disgusting and I need to keep smiling throughout the ordeal.

Good thing they don't bite. We normally get them as well, but no sign through the first two days of this heavy rain.

 

[monfongo]

termites

 

[Sailor51]

Pork through a goose? That's a new one.

 

[windeguy]

I teach online and I start at 4am each morning. I need good lighting and these flying ants love light. I was covered with them during my first 2 classes and my office is a complete mess. It is absolutely disgusting and I need to keep smiling throughout the ordeal.

The mental picture of that is amusing.

Time to clean the pool.

 

[melphis]

We have been invade by termite ants. The don't have wings but they look like ants with half their bodies kind of a translucent color. There were enough eggs that came out of 1 nest to fill a small bowl. The thing horror movies are made of. We think they are under control now.
Can't imagine have all that and wings too.

 

[CristoRey]

Can't imagine have all that and wings too.

Red Bull?

 

[chico bill]

Keep the outdoor lights off near the house at night. Leave the lights on on walls but definitely none near the pool or your doors.
And keep the ones soon as heavy rain begins.