A group of local high-schoolers is about to get antsy. Eight students and three staff members from Mound Westonka High soon will be getting up close and personal with leaf-cutter ants when they travel to the rain forests of Costa Rica next week for a 10-day scientific trek.
There, they will get to know the local villagers and participate in hands-on ecological research on the antibiotic-producing ants with scientists from the University of Costa Rica and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.