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ALVECHURCH, Aug 13: A Bizarre pitch invasion by thousands of flying ants forced the abandonment of an amateur league cricket match in Worcestershire.
Players and officials from Alvechurch and Dominies Guild cricket teams tried dousing the marauding invaders with boiling water but still the insects refused to leave the pitch.
The game was finally abandoned with Dominies on 98 for five chasing the home team’s 240 for nine.
Warwickshire-based entomologist Bob Ellis said the hot weather had brought on the mating swarm. “If you are a flying ant this is the big day of your life. The females fly up to 500 feet and the males catch them,” he said.
He said the ants did not bite and were totally harmless.
