Like any amateur myrmecologist worth her formicarium, I often say to myself, Sure, ants are majestic, but what are they keeping from me?? Finally, the truth comes out.

“The Hidden Life of Ants,” an exhibit featured at the Peabody until January 4^th, promises to bare these insects’ formerly undisclosed secrets. Paternity tests for the queen’s thousands of larvae, nectar addictions, the secret to how Diane managed to trim her thorax in only ten days, tax evasion—all of the dirty laundry that A Bug’s Life whitewashed in 1998 is at last being aired out.

Don’t miss this chance to be the entomological gossip of your friend group. In the words of the Peabody, “[Their] titanic dinosaurs and tiny ants await you!”