Collie Ennis
speaker
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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They carry germs?
They don't, no, no.
They're actually quite clean little creatures.
The great thing about them is it's like one of our natural wonders that people don't really get to see.
Now, we have our starling murmurations and we have...
you know, the basking sharks come in in the summer.
But this is another one of these summer wonders that, you know, if you stop and have a look at it, it's actually quite amazing.
And when these ants all take off and when they do take off in these massive numbers, they do so to kind of overwhelm predators.
But they are a great source of food for all the swallows, the swifts, the seagulls, all the creatures that really need a kind of a summer boost at this time of year.
They're a fantastic source of protein for them.
Yeah, everything does.
I mean, like when it comes to blue bottles and flies, I mean, their reproductive cycle is, you know, largely based on breaking down dead matter.
So, you know, that's in the wild.
That's what they do.
Otherwise, if we didn't have flies and ants and creatures like these, you'd have a lot of carcasses of animals just sitting out and kind of rotten in fields.
And these creatures break them down and they're kind of nature's recyclers.
So they are hugely important.
Yeah, well, I've seen people, you know, with ant nests that are just outside the patio or, you know, around that area where some of the queens have emerged and swarmed into a house.
It's very rare.
More than likely what you tend to get is when a nest is established, you get these kind of scout ants.
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