Do you remember last summer, on the local radio and news, big ants being spotted in the city and , ahem, experts telling us not to worry, they don't bite? well i saw one land on my leg a few years back on my shinbone and it took a great big bite out of me, i can still see a scar in certain lights. Well i saw some last weekend on the sheffield canal, and i got bit on my ankle, left arm, left hand and the small of my back, and yes, it does smart a bit! So if you go down the towpath this weekend, beware of a little surprise!

*just handed in a dissertation on army ants*
Don't know how relevant that is, but I thought I'd mention it...

...and nor do i!! but these buggers are darker and fatter/bigger than the ones you usually see in the woods etc.

i got bit last summer. had cocoa butter moisturiser on tho... prob had summin to do with it.
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I was out cycling up Foxhouse last year and 4 of the blighters went down my top. I didn't even know they were there until i got home and went to take my top off.

OUCH YA B*****D's!:rant:

yeah, but don't worry, as the expert from the university said, they don't bite! Good job they don't eh?

Dont talk 2 me about ants - had an apple core on a plate for barely 10 mins before i had a hundred of the blighters crawling around me and pulling them out of the hairs on my leg :gag:

Anybody noticed that there are swarms of mosquitoes around this year?

Yeh....ME!!!!! Begger the perishing mosquitos! My body holds testimony to any biting/flying insect! I cut the hedge last week and I am still suffering now! Every inch of uncovered skin got bitten!! I look like a flea ridden dog.
I can offer advice to any other "sweet" person like myself. (Invite me to all of your bbq's.........nobody else will get bitten while I am around! lol). Seriously.......this was suggested to me a couple of years ago, and it does seem to work. Avon "skin so soft" body lotion...........woodland fresh. The little biters don't seem so keen to grab a portion when it is plastered in this stuff.

I forgot to say..........I had forgotton to plaster my body in Avon before I cut the hedge!! I won't make that mistake again!! lol.