Even if ants were a passion of his, William Harris Ashmead was not exclusive.

Mother Nature giveth and she taketh away.

Let’s go down a rabbit hole.

They are naughty and nice. Before Santa’s helpers, Elf on a Shelf and Will Ferrell, there were woodland creatures real and imagined. 

James Henry Emerton drew a lot from his studies of spiders. An entomological illustrator, or self-proclaimed “zoological and botanical draughtsman,” Emerton was a learned local who made a name for himself in arachnology.

Islanders need not take advice from Dr. Potato.