NBTTT: Flying Ant Day: Southampton man shocked as insects swarm city

By a senior reporter in the Daily Echo, now in the same stable as former Archant papers, journalism standards are not what they were:

"A Southampton man has described his shock after flying ants swarmed the streets of Southampton on Thursday."

Later in the article

"Speaking to the Echo, dad of two Eric said: “I went to have a haircut in Bitterne, got out and went into Sainsbury’s and on the way back I started noticed things were bumping into me. I started looking around and saw they were everywhere.

“I thought it was just in that area but I was looking around Bitterne Road East and they were everywhere.”

When he got home he spotted a colony of flying ants that had taken hold of a hole on the wall of his conservatory."

Posted By: watfordcanary, Jul 19, 19:12:42