By Anne W. Semmes

Enter technology – a 3D printer and CT scanner able to produce a digital model of an ant, to expand or contract as needed, “so you can see every hair, every spine, every segment,” informs Dr. Daniel Ksepka, Curator of Science at the Bruce Museum. Hence, an exhibit able to display 50 plus large models of ants with the world’s largest, the Giant Amazonian Ant (Dinoponera) measuring five and a half feet – 35 times its 1.6 inches life-size. With its name of “Buckley,” to sit next to the smallest Carberra ant, 35 times its quarter of an inch life-size.

Welcome to the “Ant: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives” exhibit at the Bruce Museum opening Friday, November 14!

This artfully crafted and intriguing exhibit introduces bigtime the mostly hidden and mysterious world of one of the ea

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