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Default it's flying ant day!

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In reply to Klara ) who wrote this in
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The ants are flying, at least around here, in Surrey/Sussex. Is it the
same all over the country?


Ants flew last night in Northants.


Judging by all the replies, not as mysterious as I'd thought, then, but
just responding to local temperatures, maybe?

Still a bit magic, though, all those males off after just a few
queens....


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Old 01-08-2007, 11:58 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default it's flying ant day!

In reply to Klara ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

In message , Uncle Marvo
writes
In reply to Klara ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

The ants are flying, at least around here, in Surrey/Sussex. Is it
the same all over the country?


Ants flew last night in Northants.


Judging by all the replies, not as mysterious as I'd thought, then,
but just responding to local temperatures, maybe?

Still a bit magic, though, all those males off after just a few
queens....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3934591.stm

Scottish nipping ants.

Third to last paragraph (with no wind either...), I think I'd be alarmed if
an ant fell on me as I died, too.

Unfortunate choice of phrasing.


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Default it's flying ant day!

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:21:24 +0100, Klara
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In message , Uncle Marvo
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In reply to Klara ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

The ants are flying, at least around here, in Surrey/Sussex. Is it the
same all over the country?


Ants flew last night in Northants.


Judging by all the replies, not as mysterious as I'd thought, then, but
just responding to local temperatures, maybe?

Still a bit magic, though, all those males off after just a few
queens....


Sh! don't get George Michael involved.

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