ants

Who's the wise guy who declared this Joba Chamberlain Appreciation Day?

adamg — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:59:26 +0000

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.

McKenzie R. tweets from the Sox game at Fenway Park:

There are a million tiny bugs at Fenway tonight too - disgusting!

Jef Taylor, our resident expert on all things creepy and crawly, went through a similar swarm in Dedham, at first suggested:

It appears to be reproductive flights of ants. I don't like how they stick in sweat.

But a couple of hours later, he reported:

I took a picture of what was clearly a flying ant 2 hrs ago. Now lots of tiny moth like things + mosquitoes.

Ants taking slaves in Dedham

adamg — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:20:52 +0000

Jef Taylor reports from the battlefront.

Inspirational rocks

adamg — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:14:57 +0000

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:

... In between boulders we found an ant nest, in a place where someone had moved a big rock. They were as large as carpenter ants, but were reddish yellow in color. I'd never seen anything like them. They were very sluggish because of the cold, but this one began to perk up after a little while in my hand. When she opened her mandibles up wide, I carefully put her back. ...