Collie Ennis
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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Yeah, it's flying ant season.
A lot of people kind of call it flying ant day, but it is a season.
So what's happening now is it's the queen ants are all getting ready and geared up and taking to the wing for their nuptial flight.
So they are just those ants, but the queen, the hive creates these new queens.
So they'll be able to take to the wing and set up new ant nests elsewhere.
It's their form of reproduction of spreading their population around the place.
It's a very clever way of getting away from existing nests.
Yeah, it's hot and humid weather.
So that's why they're all taking off at the moment.
If you're walking down the street outside there, you can actually see in the cracks in the pavement, bits of dirt that's been pushed up by the worker ants.
And what they're doing is they're actually kind of clearing the runway for those queens to get out.
to have a good run off and then take off and fly.
And when they're on the wing, then they'll mate with the male ants.
The male ants will die.
The queen ants then land on the ground.
And for our typical black garden ant, she could live another 10, 20 years under your patio and form a huge colony that will, you know, live on.
And then next year, make more ants, queen ants to do the same thing over and over again.
The local events can last for anything from a day to a few hours.
They do tend to all take off at the same time if conditions are right.
Yeah, so much so that they get picked up on the weather radars over London.
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