| Description |
227 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index. |
| Contents |
Of Ants and Men: Morality and Triumph -- The Making of a Naturalist -- The Right Species -- Army Ants -- Fire Ants -- How Fire Ants Made Environmental History -- Ants Defeat the Conquistadors -- The Fiercest Ants in the World, and Why -- The Benevolent Matriarchy -- Ants Talk with Smell and Taste -- How We Broke the Pheromone Code -- Speaking Formic -- Ants Are Everywhere (Almost) -- Homeward Bound -- Adventures in Myrmecology -- The Fastest Ants in the World, and the Slowest -- Social Parasites Are Colony Engineers -- The Matabele, Warrior Ants of Africa -- War and Slavery Among the Ants -- The Walking Dead -- Tiny Cattle Ranchers of Africa -- Trapjaws versus Springtails -- Searching for the Rare -- An Endangered Species -- Leafcutters, the Ultimate Superorganisms -- Ants That Lived with the Dinosaurs. |
| Indexed In: |
Publishers Weekly, May 2020 |
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Booklist, August 2020 |
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Kirkus Starred, May 2020 |
| Summary |
"[The author] recalls his lifetime with ants--from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest . . . evokes his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 15,000 ant species . . . observing that 'males are little more than flying sperm missiles' or that ants send their 'little old ladies into battle,' Wilson eloquently relays his brushes with fire, army, and leafcutter ants, as well as more exotic species: the Matabele, Africa's fiercest warrior ants; Costa Rica's Basiceros, the slowest ants in the world; and New Caledonia's Myrmecia apicalis, the most endangered of them all"--Provided by publisher. |
| Audience |
Adult Follett School Solutions. |
| Subject |
Ants.
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Ants -- Behavior.
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| ISBN |
9781324091097 |
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