Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — A Shower of Black Ants. [ARTICLE]

A Shower of Black Ants.

The warm, thunderous state of the atmosphere, Wednesday evening, presaged a heavy downp.ut of rain in the city and vicinity, but this ex' pectation was not realized, and the rain passed off with a slight shower. Instead of the rain a shower of another kind resulted, which is one of the most curious visisations in the history of the city. On the sidewalks, in the roads, upon the roofs, and the inside of the houses there was seen numbers of large black ants crawling about. They were found as plentiful in the outskirts of the city as on the main streets, and from the fact that some of these insects have wings while others have dropped or shed them, it is natural to conclude that they have migrated from some district to the south of the province, and have come to stay. They are large, black bodied specimens, about the size of a wasp, and have the strong nippers of their race, They are not a native of Manitoba, and are similar to the African ant.— Winnepeg Free Press.