Collie Ennis
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820 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Collie Ennis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can actually see, because London has a massive population of black ants, and when they all take off, if the conditions are right over a large area, they'll all take off at the exact same time.
Now, most of the time, it's very localised.
So you could get, you know, a couple of roads or a street that will just have the right conditions for them to go.
And then maybe the following week they might go, you know, a couple of miles down the road.
A separate bunch will go off at the same time.
Why are they so fond of London?
Well, any cities, they do really well because if you look at it, do you ever see an ant farm for kids?
It's like two panes of glass with some sand packed in and you put the queen ant in and she forms a colony.
What we've created in our back gardens with patios and the likes, you know, it's that perfect conditions, just slabs down on the ground with lovely sand underneath it.
And that's perfect for the queen ants to go.
And when they fly off, they'll land in a place like that, dig down and set up a colony.
So you can imagine that on a massive scale, like Dublin, London, Cork, Galway.
That's why so many of them take up residence there.
Well, if you're outside a bar on a sunny evening, you might find one landing in your pint because that's how you recognise them.
I like them last night.
They're very similar to what they look very wasp like, except they'd be smaller and completely brown or black.
They're just a nuisance.
They're not dangerous.
They won't sting you.
They don't bite.
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