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ATTACK OF THE FLYING ANTS

Well, I don't want to frighten you, but that's incredible.  All across Ealing on the same two days every year, every single ant in the Borough knows weather conditions are ideal and it is time to swarm.How do they know?  Can you imagine what would happen if they decided collectively to act against humankind in such a remarkably co-ordinated fashion?  Scary.Humans can achieve that level of mass communication with radio; TV; computers and mobile phones.   What system are the ants using? 

Richard Bestic ● 5912d12 Comments

Well I am sure Dickie Dawkins would tell you it is mere blind chance without any significance at all. OTH, those of us who know there is a God ......

Graham Weeks ● 5912d

Graham,it's all a bit of a worry.  Are you suggesting Ealing ants are collectively hearing messages from God and then acting on those messages?  I ask because your alternative suggestion, of a massive bi-annual coincidence, could not be possible, could it?And why should God be talking to the ants?  Does he/she know something we don't?

Richard Bestic ● 5912d

I would not say god wants to annoy us but nature has a funny way of reminding us of it's power. In a sense man always thinks he is supreme and in charge but ash clouds and othere events show us how small we are. perhaps an ant is small, but on flying ant day they show off how big collectively they are.

Peter Chadburn ● 5912d

Yes, sure, but how do they know?

Richard Bestic ● 5912d

Act against us in a co-ordinated fashion? A kettle of boiling water soon shows them who's boss!

Susan Kelly ● 5911d

No. I was merely hinting that the ants are part of a created universe not a mere accident. They are small beer here compared with the annual appearace of the flying termites we experienced in Nigeria each year. One of my few regrets is that i was not brave enough to join in with the locals who fried them. I am told the taste is rather nut like.

Graham Weeks ● 5911d

I guess the taste of flying termite would be a little similar to fried South East Asian Cockroach, which just tastes ... er ... crunchy, really.But we digress.I think we're agreed, God is not talking to Ealing's ants or Nigeria's flying termites.  Neither is anyone eating them, well apart from the Nigerians.So, how do Ealing's ants know the precise two days of the year when weather conditions are ideafor swarming and then, as one, swarm.There's gotta' be an answer.  And, personally, I don't think it's part of a universal plan instigated by an omnipotent supernatural power. 

Richard Bestic ● 5911d

The answer is called nature.

G Lord ● 5911d

and the cycle of life.Actually didn't really see a lot of them - there were a few up in the City, but by the time I got home I think they had all gone.

J Smith ● 5911d

I do.

Graham Weeks ● 5910d

We had the ants about three weeks ago, after a gap of two or three years. Where have they been? Holiday in Benidorm?

Susan Kelly ● 5910d

Ealing ants?  In Benidorm? I don't think so.

Richard Bestic ● 5910d