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Pierce has built her career upon observing, studying and theorizing about the winged insects. More specifically, she has spent most of her time studying the mutualism between butterfly and ant species. In her work, she has come across an unusual relationship whereby ants protect caterpillars from predators and the caterpillars secrete protein-rich food for the ants...
...Enter Ant...
Early on, Pierce's penchant for interdisciplinary studies took her beyond the world of butterflies into the world of ants--with none other than Harvard's Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning entymologist known affectionately as the "ant...
Pierce actually studied under Wilson when she was working towards her Ph.D. at Harvard. But the ant man is not Pierce's number one mentor. That distinction belongs to Remington, whose inspiring lecture on butterflies convinced Pierce to stop by his offices while she was an undergraduate...
...they have been very impressed with Gates for the amount of work he has been doing. "Gates is a workaholic who loves it and who does it with a smile on his face," says Kilson. "He is a roll-up-the-sleeves leader type. He is a queen ant and a drone combined...