GET ready, thousands of flying ants are set to swarm into your garden.

Now that summer appears to be here, #FlyingAntDay could happen at any time.

Flying ant day is the day of the year when Queen ants and males sprout wings and take off to mate in mid air.

Flying Ant Day usually covers four or five days depending on the weather, usually at the end of July - but the sudden heat of the weekend has meant hundreds of flying ants have already been spotted - and where one goes, the rest tend to follow.

A new queen ant will leave the colony, in which she wa born, to mate and find a new colony. So, she leaves her nest with a number of flying male worker ants.

According to the Royal Society of Biology, the large numbers of flying ants which appear in a short space of time increase the chance of reproduction, because there is a very high chance a queen will encounter a male from another nest.

Then, to check her male is worthy, she flies away from him, performing acrobatics to test his abilities to catch her.

She is caught and they mate in mid-air, sadly, this kills the male ant.

Professor Adam Hart FRSB, from the University of Gloucestershire said: "With 2016 already proving to be a wet one, it will be interesting to see whether we get a repeat of 2012, when most of the flights were compressed into just a couple of days in July and August between the rain."