A giant swarm of flying ants is not making its way to Ireland from Britain, according to a wildlife expert.
Images from the UK Met Office over the weekend showed a swarm over south east England, with similar patterns showing over Ireland.
It's not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise...📡
The radar is actually picking up a swarm of #flyingants across the southeast 🐜
During the summer ants can take to the skies in a mass emergence usually on warm, humid and windless days #flyingantday pic.twitter.com/aMF6RxR943
— Met Office (@metoffice) July 17, 2020
However Eanna Ní Lamhna says that was just a standard rainfall radar;
"They're over in Kent doing their thing over there. They're not coming this way, they're not flying across the Irish Sea, they're not going to gobble us up in our beds or run away with our sugar."
But she says this is the time of the year for Irish ants to mate "our own ants will be having their own orgy in Ireland in due course."
The author and environmentalist says the female ants grow wings and fly up in the air. She says during correct weather conditions the males are activated and they take to the skies to mate.
