Two thumbs up! Biologist James Traniello, an expert in ant behavior, went to the theater with the author to see Ant-Man. Photo by Cydney Scott
Two thumbs up! Biologist James Traniello, an expert in ant behavior, went to the theater with the author to see Ant-Man. Photo by Cydney Scott

“It’s a turning point for ants in cinema,” says James Traniello, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of biology, who joined BU Today for a matinee viewing of the film. Traniello has spent his career studying the social behavior of ants, and is also—perhaps not surprisingly—a connoisseur of insect films. He gives Ant-Man an enthusiastic thumbs-up, though he had a few quibbles with the science.

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