Collie Ennis
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820 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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And they're the guys who are sent out to look for food.
A juicy morsel, a dead slug or a dead worm in the wild, something like that.
And they'll go back, leaving a chemical trail to the nest.
And then all the workers will come out and collect that food.
Now, if the kids have stuffed a Mars bar down the back of the couch and you don't know about it and this scout aunt is out and he smells that sweet source of food and goes back to the nest, that's when you get loads of them coming into your house.
Now, the key to stopping that is just really to, obviously, don't leave the Mars bar down the back of the couch if you can avoid it.
Don't give the child the Mars bar in the first place.
Exactly.
To break those chemicals signals, you just have to kind of give the floor a bit of a wipe.
And that will actually stop them because they won't have anywhere to follow or to realise that there's a food source there.
Yeah, it depends.
It's species specific.
Some species like are very rural.
Some like our wood ants are quite rare.
We've got around 20, 25 species of ants in the country and we're probably going to end up getting more because as the climate warms and as we kind of, ants are great travellers.
Like a queen ant can hop on a shipping container from mainland Europe of which there's many more populations of ants over there and come over to Ireland easily.
So yeah, one to watch down the line.
Not always harmless, but we're okay here.
Unfortunately, yes, unfortunately.
The fire ants and the red ants are kind of the nastier ones that you'd want to watch out for.
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