飛蟻: 族群像'暴雨'般出現在英國的天氣圖上
Flying ants: Swarms appear on weather map as 'rain'
Huge swarms of flying ants in the south of England have appeared on a weather forecast map looking like rain.
Large numbers of what the Met Office described as "insect clutter" were recorded on radar systems between 8:00 and 11:00 BST.
Clouds of the insects were shown moving from south Hampshire to west Sussex on the interactive weather map.
BBC weather presenter Simon King tweeted an image of what he described as the "incredible" phenomenon earlier.
Mr King said: "We knew it was dry in the south of England, and yet the radar was showing this very light precipitation across the south.
"You can tell it's not rainfall because it has that eerie look to it. It doesn't quite match what rainfall looks like.
"These ants are a particular size and they are probably hovering at a certain height in the atmosphere towards the base of a cloud, and the sheer number of them would suggest there's enough for the radar systems to pick up."
Bournemouth, Brighton and Winchester are some of the areas where residents could end up facing an insect invasion.
Researchers have suggested that there isn't necessarily such a thing as a Flying Ant Day.
But a study of the insects found they fly somewhere in the UK on 96% of days between the start of June and the start of September.
That movement is caused by potential new female queens and male ants embarking on a mating flight.
Mr King said it was the biggest swarm of insects he had seen in the UK, and was a more common sight in parts of the United States.
He added: "For it to actually to appear on the radar imagery, that's something certainly incredible, and I just feel sorry for all the people who have to experience those flying ants."
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