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This year I am having a problem with ants (large, medium and small) black ants and some flying little black bugs. Kind of look like flying ants? Anyways, what can I do? I have been killing them as I see them but they are multiplying like crazy and I cant keep up. I have 6 LARGE bearded dragon cages, 4 worms bins, 1 roach bin, 2 cricket bins, and a ton of baby dragon cages. Please help! Are the ants deadly to the dragons if by chance they eat them? Also what about the flying bugs? I am trying to look them up now, to identify them. Can anyone help! Thanks, LindsayMarie

ps. From what I have looked up, the flying ones are flying ants! Now what!!!!!!!?
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BC Dragons

Those little flying beetles usually come with crickets. Not sure what they are or how to kill them. My baby frilleds ate them, but they where pretty tough.
James

I once had flying ant infestation in my house, because it was a dry year. They NEVER stop coming. An incecticide would probably do a descent job, but that would be asanine for your application. I would say your best bet is to try to find out where these are actually coming from. once you isolate that, you can snuff them out by squashing or whatever. make shure to kill all the eggs.

As far as being deadly, well, the wont attack you lizards, they are not like fire ants. if they get eaten, that good be benign to malignant. Benign being that they never came in contact with incecticide, and are not carrying any paracites, and malignant being that they have a checkmark in one or both of those columns.

If i were you, i would try to find the sourse and snuff them out without insecticide. then do a complete cleaning of my enclosures to see if there is any periferal "infection." But that is my take on the matter.

Truth