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To Save an Ant, "Because That's What Heroes Do"

12/28/2021

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by Mindy Block
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This isn't exclusively a story about Marvel's Ant Man, nor of E.O. Wilson's studies of ants and the web of life. It's also a story about someone I knew way back, when I planted wild lupines in Rocky Point Pine Barrens State Forest, and he "planted" ant colonies.   I think he was a dentist. 

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