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Joe Sixlegs
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I. middletonii
Binomial name
Ioannedae middletonii

Joe Sixlegs (born February 30, 2009 in Chiltern Hills, England, United Kingdom) is the ant that crawled over the altar of Westminster Abbey during the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29, 2011.

Joe's cousin

Life and career

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Sixlegs was born in an ant colony near the abandoned home of the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham. From early youth on, he excelled in pebble-throwing and basic ant-ropology, but later became an hydroholic due to his habit of drinking up to 10 raindrops per evening.[citation needed] After a successful rehabilitation programme, he became a writer and authored several well-known plays.

Controversy

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According to the Daily Mail, Joe was notable for displaying what seemed to resemble a Union Jack on the third segment of his chitin body, making him the first arthropod in history to be lauded as "truly patriotic" by The Sun.

Experts examined the pictures taken via cellphone to dispel rumours of a remote-controlled plastic robot, and issued a 30 page scientific report on the photographs' authenticity. Various members of the British republican movement nonetheless continue to maintain that the images are fake, and claim they are part of a conspiracy to strengthen their opponents' cause.

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Categories: Important arthropods | British history | Royal weddings