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Wondering how scientist/blogger/photographer Alex Wild gets close-up shots of hundreds of thousands of stinging army ants? It's harder than regular insect photography, he says. (We guessed.) But it's not as woefully impossible a job as you might think. In a neat behind-the-scenes post, Wild explains how to use camera techniques and ant biology to help you get the shot without getting totally mauled.
Maggie Koerth-Baker is the science editor at BoingBoing.net. She writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine and is the author of Before the Lights Go Out
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