8-year-old boy’s curiosity about ‘seed-like’ balls in his backyard uncovered a hidden ant network |
The child mistook oak galls for seeds that revealed a new link between ants, wasps, and trees. Image credit – Gemini Scientific discoveries don’t necessarily emerge from laboratories. In this case, it came out of a back garden. An 8-year-old child named Hugo Deans observed round bodies around an ant hill, thinking he had discovered…