https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/science/ants-wilson-photography-niga-rice.html
The Sahara Desert ant (Cataglyphis bicolor), with its long, spidery legs — an invaluable adaptation for staying cool above the blazing sand.
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Let Us Now Praise Tiny Ants
Even in the densest human habitations, there are orders of magnitude more ants than there are of us, doing the hard work of making our crumbs disappear.
The Sahara Desert ant (Cataglyphis bicolor), with its long, spidery legs — an invaluable adaptation for staying cool above the blazing sand.Credit...
April 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
It is telling, the entomologist Eleanor Spicer Rice writes in her introduction to a new book of ant photography by Eduard Florin Niga, that humans looking downward on each other from great heights like to describe the miniaturized people we see below us as looking “like ants.” By this we mean faceless, tiny, swarming: an indecipherable mass stripped of individuality or interest.