No bugs like the rain it seems, especially the heavy rains we've had for the last 4-5 days. My house is crawling with sow bugs, flies and ants that were not to be seen a week ago. Also some ants swarm with the first heavy rains - that is they grow wings and try to fly - by the thousands. All the ones I've seen have not been very successful, they are just all over the yard and left behind wings flutter around like little kites.
Local gringo talk is they are termites but I've had a constant battle with leaf cutting ants. I just asked my drinking water guy today and he says they are leaf cutters that get drowned out of their underground nests. The termite story is some of the tribe are thrown out of the nest to go make a new colony. I'll go with flooded leaf cutters. In my back patio there were thousands of little ones, 20-30 wasp looking ones and a few beetle like creatures - all with wings. I did my best to end the lives of as many as I could with the rational of saving my garden.
Some of the small ants on my back patio
Termites but they look similar
Mine had the two part body is another reason I think leaf cutters
