Brits are bracing themselves for the dreaded 'flying ant day' after a huge mile-long swarm was caught on a weather radar on the south coast - and more could be on the way.
The Met Office picked up the ants on a rain radar on Friday, July 7, as people took to social media reporting sightings of the winged insect. The forecaster explained that flying ants are usually picked up on their radars at this time of the year, over the space of about a week.
The swarms appear on the weather radars and can be so big that they look similar to rainfall, but the Met Office can check their weather gauges to confirm if the mass is rain or flying ants. But the creatures are less likely to fly in the rain, and it can be more difficult for the Met Office to tell if it is ants or the rainfall during wet weather, forecaster Simon Partridge explained.
