The Met Office believes it has detected a huge swarm of insects over the UK after seeing "weird rain" on radar images.
Experts monitor patterns of rain and where it falls but were puzzled when they came across a "strange" span of blue.
Taking to social media app TikTok to explain, one of the meteorologists said: "We saw something really weird on the radar this morning.
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"Weather radars work by sending out beams of electromagnetic radiation and then where they get reflected tells us where it is raining or snowing - but this looked different.
"This blue splodge that formed just to the north of London just didn't look like rain.
"These are rain showers across east Anglea [pointing to red splodges with blue outlines], but this [pointing to a fan shape of blue] is just strange.
"So what was it? Well, it needs to be something small about the size of a raindrop and there needs to be lots and lots of them.
"It was probably insects and in fact, it may well have been flying ant day."
The Met Office has since issued a “forecast” which could bug the England team as it seeks Euro glory in Sunday’s final against Italy.
Over roughly three months each summer, weather conditions are ideal for the insects to mate while in flight around England.
Adam Hart, professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire and a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, told Sky News the swarms signalled the beginning of this year’s flying ant season.
Professor Hart added: “If conditions are right on Sunday there may be more than three lions on shirts at Wembley and all around the country.”
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