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.
Britains Met office later cleared the mystery up in a tweet.
Its 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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Are the locusts next? Fire from the sky? A plague of frogs? When do the monkeys launch from the castle in Chappaqua?
Every day.
Yes, I do remember James Whitmore. Great actor.
I didn’t know this...from imdb.com:
“Trivia
A very young Leonard Nimoy appears as an Army sergeant in the information center.”
Can you believe that?
Fire ants fly? That feels like a serious design flaw.
“Day of the Triffids”
Yikes!
So was Leonard Nimoy.
Oh...I see you already know about Leonard Nimoy. I should read the whole thread before posting...hah hah...
“Triffids” - interesting theory now being: Are We not happy that our oceans are rising? The OH NOS are changing their tune to THANK GOD!
How else would one defend themselves if living in a lighthouse?
Obviously, President Trump’s fault. Impeach!!!
I had about 100 ants on my kitchen counter a week ago and in my microwave....
100 degrees outside then.
Isnt that from one of the Twilight Zone episodes?
Nope. Heres his IMDB acting jobs.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
He was in Them long before Twilight Zone.
You two just triggered an old memory.
My first movie date with a girl was “THEM”.
We had known each other since the 1st grade. One Friday after school I called her and asked her to be my date Sunday afternoon. ....We were both 10 and in the 4th grade!
Saw her and her husband in 2000 at our HS reunion and told the story of how excited I was and all of my preparations. We all had a great laugh.
LOL Are you singing “Thanks for the Memories”?
Happy to have jogged your memory a bit. :-)
Last night, regular routine...watching Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune pin TV. For some reason, Jeopardy aired an old, old episode (70s, 80s?). The episode was so old, I didn't initially recognize the very young Alex Trebek. The game board was a collection of tube TVs, not the modern sleek board they have nowadays. My wife got a kick out of the show, as did I. I had to point out that she was enjoying a show from the very distant past...just as we (at FR) had enjoyed discussing those old movies.
plague of frogs....it’s been done. Ray Milland in the 1972 movie, “Frogs”. Ray way past his prime, as this movie proves. Terrible movie.
A Swarm of ants flies for the first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMsQOrIhsA8
Night of the Lepus is amazing, especially with the Rifftrax.
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