PLAGUE OF ANTS.

Shannon News, 19 October 1926, Page 4

PLAGUE OF ANTS.

GOLFERS AND BATHERS ATj TACKED. A plague of ants on a recent morning compelled golfers who had motored from Southampton to Bramshaw golf links, in the New Forest, to retire from the course with their games unfinished. “Shortly after we started the game," one of the players said to a “Daily Mail” reporter, “the ants descended upon the course, and there were so many in the sand boxes that it was difficult to get sand for the tees. “Scores settled upon the players and bit them badly. Unable to beat them off, the players, with reddened skins caused by the bites, beat a retreat to the clubhouse.’* A cloud of the insects invaded a Southampton garden, where a game of lawn tennis had to be suspended, the players being unable to see on account of the Insects which got into their eyes. Herne Bay, Canterbury and Whitstable also experienced plagues of ants. At Whftstable the insects, settling on the sea, forced bathers to leave the water. Inthe harbour thousands of fish were to be seen leaping from 1 the water to devour the Insects.