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[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Weather radar picks up mysterious shadow across three states ‘caused by huge dragonfly swarm’

We had a similar occurrence a few weeks ago but with flying ants.

A cloud of flying ants that hit the south coast on Wednesday was so dense it could be seen in satellite images from space.

The swarm of insects peppered the skies in the counties of Dorset Hampshire, and West Sussex — and were captured on the Met Office's radar, shocking images show.

Ants were also spotted in Kent and East Sussex. The insects were on their so-called 'nupital flight', during which they mate — an event triggered by the current weather.

Ants swarm together to raise the odds of pairs successfully mating and to deter predators at this vulnerable stage in the life cycle of their colonies.

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The link is to a Daily Mail article so be prepared for astronomical amounts of hyperbole.

(See what I did there? )

[xoxoxoBruce]

So the flying ants are looking for love in all the high places.
I thought ants had a queen who got all the action, like bees.