Cindi Camponotus is a particularly astute carpenter ant who lives in a rotten log with her 200,000 sisters. Her reports range widely from pandemics and treason to White House spies and the WEE-TOO movement. She reports on politics and the conspiracy to end humanity. Cindi’s forte is the creation of inter-specific treaties that allow her tribe to escape being eaten. Her characters are true to their scientific names. Any correspondence between her reports and the antics of humans is in the mind of the reader, much like satire.

One of Anthony (Tony) Picardi’s numerous passions is natural history. He earned an interdisciplinary Doctor of Science degree in Social Environmental Systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked in the software industry until he retired to a farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia where he created a wildlife refuge. His interest in animal behavior was sparked by watching ant wars on a sidewalk with the late Professor E. O. Wilson 47 years ago. In his writing, he collaborates with an ant to reflect on human behavior with the hope that these reports will instill some respect, humility and possibly humor into the reader. Tony lives in Williamsburg, Virginia with his wife, Shirley. Cindi Camponotus is the latest in a rare genome of literate carpenter ants of the genus Camponotus. She uses a computer at night to report on news of the natural world. She seldom misses a chance to critique the antics of Homo sapiens. Cindi’s missives have been published in online literary journals.