“Keeping the public informed since the 20th Century” corrects IE6 width calculation Wednesday, 15 July 2015 Flying Ant Day, then (1953) and then (1978) How the times they are a-have-changed. Once the friendly flying ant was as welcome an annual sight as the Padstow Mummy or Doctor Christmas. Now the insect has fallen from favour, and its day (traditionally the third full sun of July) is seen as nothing more than a regular nuisance. The change seems to have taken place in the 1980s, when increased awareness of sub-surface pestlife like moles and soil turtles was met with the might and maybe of the poisons industry. Turtle powder and mole hammers were regulars under the sinks of the nation’s sinks. In th...