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2020’s latest scourge: 50-mile-wide swarm of flying ants
ny post ^ | 7/17/2020 | Laura Italiano

Posted on 07/20/2020 8:58:06 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

From the year that brought us murder hornets, famine-inducing locusts and the global coronavirus pandemic, comes the latest airborne scourge: a 50-mile-wide swarm of flying, and mating, ants.

The horny swarm currently copulating over England is so vast, it showed up on radar to the bafflement of meteorologists, the Telegraph reported Friday.

Weather watchers initially believed the weird “droplets” on their radar screens were rain clouds.

But that made no sense given the dry and otherwise cloudless weather being enjoyed below in London, Kent and Sussex, the report said.

Britain’s Met office later cleared the mystery up in a tweet.

“It’s not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise,” they wrote. “The radar is actually picking up a swarm of #flyingants across the southeast Ant . . . During the summer ants can take to the skies in a mass emergence usually on warm, humid and windless days.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: england; flyingants; infestation; plague
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1 posted on 07/20/2020 8:58:06 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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During the summer ants can take to the skies in a mass emergence usually on warm, humid and windless days.”


Sounds like this is not unusual.


2 posted on 07/20/2020 8:59:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I, for one, welcome our new overlords.

3 posted on 07/20/2020 9:01:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Only a matter of time before they have open bloody gang warfare with the murder hornets. Wear a mask! It will protect you from ants, murder hornets, Trump voters, and falling pianos! Because, Science(tm)!


4 posted on 07/20/2020 9:07:52 AM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The queens from an established nest, flying with their mates in search of a prime location to begin a new nest.
Texas, home to a vast number of FIRE ANTS are frequently seen flying to begin this cycle. Not unusual in the least.


5 posted on 07/20/2020 9:25:29 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
From the year that brought us murder hornets, famine-inducing locusts and the global coronavirus pandemic, comes the latest airborne scourge: a 50-mile-wide swarm of flying, and mating, ants.

Are people still allowing the press to scare them with such nonsense?

6 posted on 07/20/2020 9:27:25 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Failed to mention:
Fess Parker saw these ants fly, not knowing what they were. He was promptly put in a strait jacket, the authorities told to keep him a while longer. (”THEM”)


7 posted on 07/20/2020 9:29:30 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Oh great! Now the little bastards will be coming at us from the sky too. Who taught them to fly?


8 posted on 07/20/2020 9:33:59 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

what’s all the panic about? It’s not like the swarm was 51 miles wide or anything


9 posted on 07/20/2020 9:34:22 AM PDT by Bob434
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We just got over an infeststion of stink bugs INSIDE the house. And we’ve had flying ants in the past (carpenter ants!). Had our share of Ladybugs too. Each spring it’s love bugs. I call’em that because all they do is fornicate...and have little mite-looking babies by the thousands that smear red if you squash’em.

Don’t even get me started on yard weeds. God seems to give us a new variety every year. I thank Him for His bountiful gifts...then I Round’em Up.


10 posted on 07/20/2020 9:37:55 AM PDT by moovova
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“THEM”

SCARY movie!


11 posted on 07/20/2020 9:38:55 AM PDT by moovova
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Yes, very. Imagine, Davy Crockett in an asylum. James Whitmore was also in the film. Remember him?


12 posted on 07/20/2020 9:45:37 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: Bob434
or 50 lanes of Chinese traffic


13 posted on 07/20/2020 9:46:35 AM PDT by xp38
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And Matt Dillon, (James Arness)


14 posted on 07/20/2020 10:07:21 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (MAGA, and build that wall, and buy Greenland now.)
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Right! Thanks. “Gunsmoke”. My dad seldom missed watching
that show.

Also, Edmund Gwenn. He also played Santa in the original Miracle on 34th Street w/Natalie Wood. He played the Doctor in this one.
Don’t remember this one, but Leonard Nimoy also thrown in the mix, playing a member of the Air Force.


15 posted on 07/20/2020 10:17:10 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: xp38

they should take mucinex- they all look congested-


16 posted on 07/20/2020 10:21:25 AM PDT by Bob434
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Yes Nimoy was in about 5 seconds as an Air Force clerk, he tore off a teletype sheet and handed it to, I can’t remember who, lol.


17 posted on 07/20/2020 10:24:55 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (MAGA, and build that wall, and buy Greenland now.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

18 posted on 07/20/2020 10:33:46 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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What? No scary, but catchy name?

DEATH ANTS!!!


19 posted on 07/20/2020 10:52:38 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

Love these type movies.

Them, Deadly Mantis, Beginning of the End (grasshoppers, Peter Graves), Tarantula, The Black Scorpion, It Came From Beneath the Sea (octopus), Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (dinosaur,w/King Donovan also in Invasion of The Body Snatchers, and Cecil Kellaway cousin, of Edmund Gwenn)
They don’t make movies like they used to!


20 posted on 07/20/2020 11:04:12 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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