His singing brought him fame. But now Mikey Bustos has become 'the No.1 driving factor for getting people into ants,' Tyler Boehmer, an undergrad biology student at Arizona State University told The Daily Beast.
It’s not just hobbyists who are excited about what Bustos is doing. Researchers say he’s playing a valuable role in helping them understand a creature that most people rarely notice but that arguably is even more dominant than humans when it comes to ruling planet Earth.
As he read books and joined online forums on ant-keeping, he realized that the hobby, though big in Europe, was not common in North America. had been around since the 1960s, but they were essentially children’s toys: cheap pieces of plastic and glass aimed at kids who would plunk a few worker ants in and watch them dig before getting bored.
That visit sparked “conversations around husbandry and how it can impact research,” Moreau told The Daily Beast. Many researchers can be intimately familiar with ant taxonomy but have no idea how to properly keep a colony going in a lab. The knowledge developed by amateurs like Bustos is actively sought out by the professionals to facilitate their research.
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