Not sure if it’s flying ant day but we have A LOT flying around outside the house!
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Yep, they are everywhere!
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Ditto. Driving me bonkers. Seems to be the same day ish each year. Why does it happen? It was the same in dulwich this morning.
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There’s always a reddit flying ant day post so yes that would appear to confirm it is today.
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A bit earlier this year compared to previous topics:
July 13th in 2017: Flying Ant Day in SE23
July 16th in 2019: Non human visitors & residents of SE23
I saw that in some parts the ant swarms were dense enough to appear on weather radar!
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Certainly saw them in the area yesterday.
Flying Ant Day is a misnomer though, it’s not just one day!
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Is it though? I think it’s true! Whilst you get ants flying on lots of other days as I think various studies have shown, to my uneducated eye it appears there is a day each year when you have a mass of flying ants (and I guess that day my vary regionally based on weather and conditions). I’m not sure we will have another day like yesterday in SE23 this year for flying ants!
I think there’s always one day where they are heaviest in number but from my cycling commuting days, I seem to recall more than one day in a summer where it happened. That might have been across two different areas - is Brixton’s flying ant day the same as ours? - rather than two separate days here.
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This is exactly it. There is one day for each area where the number of ants is clearly at a maximum. But it is a different day for different areas, particularly between towns and countryside, so “Flying Ant Day” can be a bit misleading in that regard.
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Apparently the flying ants were so numerous over parts of the south coast today that they showed up as ‘rain’ on the Met Office radar - I think Sky’s headline writers got a little overexcited!
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Sounds like flying ant day saved a slow news day!
At least they got a good factoid in the article, which agrees with @neilw:
The Royal Society of Biology points out there is not always one such day, with flying ants spotted on as many as 96% of the days between June and September.
I presume the Royal Society of Biology know this because they keep an eye out from space 
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As if to underscore the “not just one day” point, there’s been a few flying ants around Perry Vale today, three weeks later!
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yes it’s flying ant day 2.0 can confirm.
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Why do I always seem to be in yellow on flying ant day 
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According to an article in the news, flying ant day is likely to be this weekend 
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Let’s hope they don’t make an appearance at Wembley tomorrow evening!
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That’s what the article was saying 
I think it was yesterday as there were quite a few hitching a ride on the Overground… Unless it’s like Secret Cinema and they were on their way to an exclusive secret location 
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I must admit I didn’t notice it this year, in SE 23 anyway. I wonder if the weather this year reduced numbers?
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