My fireworks this 4th of July were following naturalists E. O. Wilson, Peter Alden and 150 others around with a video camera as they tried to identify at least 2009 species within the confines of Walden Woods – the towns of Concord, Carlisle and Lincoln, Massachusetts on Walden Biodiversity Day.

We won’t know how many species were found for a few more weeks, but both the Boston Globe’s story A day for seeing all living things, great and small and the Worcester News Telegram’s The crushing truth: Some ants smell funny capture some of the day’s, uh, flavor (LOL – the ones I tasted reminded me of lemon and chicken).