From Seed magazine's cover story on biologist Edward O. Wilson, author, most recently, of The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth:

Brian Farrell, the beetle expert, re-counts a trip three years ago to the Dominican Republic, where Farrell does a large share of his fieldwork. On the ride from the airport, Wilson linked his knowledge of West Indies ants with national and local history and solved an age-old mystery involving a 16th-century ant invasion that's a core element of the Dominican national identity. "He put it all together within three minutes of our picking him up," Farrell says. Wilson was there to be awarded the nation's highest civilian honor for his work in conservation and West Indies biogeography. "The next day he gave a talk entitled, 'The Invasive Ant Mystery Solved,'" Farrell adds. "The audience went wild."