Our olive tree wasn't doing too well in its pot so we repotted it.
I tipped the soil out on to a tarpaulin and . . . .
. . . . the soil was alive with yellow ants.
They were really disorientated and wandered about with no obvious sense of purpose.
There are about 15000 species of ant worldwide but the most common in Britain are red ants (Myrmica rubra), black ants (Lasius niger) that nest under paths and paving slabs, and yellow meadow ants (Lasius flavus) that make those tumpy anthills in rough grassland.
I suppose they thought the flower pot would be a good anthill.
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