{"id":110192,"date":"2020-07-19T22:47:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T05:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-swarm-of-flying-ants-stretched-for-miles-over-the-uk-and-looked-like-rain-on-weather-radar"},"modified":"2020-07-20T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:35:46","slug":"a-swarm-of-flying-ants-stretched-for-miles-over-the-uk-and-looked-like-rain-on-weather-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-swarm-of-flying-ants-stretched-for-miles-over-the-uk-and-looked-like-rain-on-weather-radar","title":{"rendered":"A swarm of flying ants stretched for miles over the UK and looked like rain on weather radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ow they are coming for you.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>You can add giant swarms of flying ants to your 2020 scary-sounding insects Bingo card alongside murder hornets and hordes of noisy cicadas.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">UK\u2019s Met Office<\/a> shared radar imagery that showed the ants flying over the southeast part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise,\u201d it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metoffice\/status\/1284075613331038208\" target=\"_blank\">said in a tweet on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ow they are coming for you. You can add giant swarms of flying ants to your 2020 scary-sounding insects Bingo card alongside murder hornets and hordes of noisy cicadas. The UK\u2019s Met Office shared radar imagery that showed the ants flying over the southeast part of the country. \u201cIt\u2019s not raining in London, Kent or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110204,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110192\/revisions\/110204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}