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By adamg - 6/27/23 - 9:41 am

Somebody in Cambridge is giving away a colony of C. pennsylvanicus, a variety of carpenter ants, complete with a formicarium: Read more.

By adamg - 7/25/15 - 8:00 am

BU Today took biology professor and ant expert James Traniello to see Ant-Man:

Traniello has spent his career studying the social behavior of ants, and is also - perhaps not surprisingly - a connoisseur of insect films. He gives Ant-Man an enthusiastic thumbs-up, though he had a few quibbles with the science.

By adamg - 8/28/12 - 8:37 pm

Jef Taylor reported around 6:20 p.m.:

Big flying ant emergence happening in Dedham now. These at definitely ant alates, big females with distended abdomens and tiny darker males.

Colleen Dillon checked in not long after from Quincy:

BIG swarm In West Quincy!

You may recall the endless swarms of icky little bugs around the same time last year.

By adamg - 8/26/11 - 8:59 pm

People all across greater Boston tonight are finding themselves deluged by a sudden onslaught of swarms of little bugs.

Megan Lee tweets:

There are a million tiny flying bugs covering my back door & porch. This is a bad sign isn't it?

In Brookline, Stephen Walsh tweets:

They are all over the cars on my street. Look like tiny fleas.

By adamg - 7/30/11 - 11:20 am

Jef Taylor reports from the battlefront.

By adamg - 4/9/07 - 9:14 am

The Urban Pantheist treks through the woods of Dogtown, a Cape Ann village deserted after the Revoluation where Babson College founder (and anti-gravity promoter) Roger Babson later had stone cutters carve various inspirational messages on boulders. He also photographs an ant designed to give you nightmares:

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