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Longino said Tschinkel was able to blend science with storytelling, and noted that his work was both educational and entertaining. He wrote: “Walter takes the time to produce larger synthetic works that are actually entertaining”. Mark E. Laidre commended the book for its in-depth exploration of the underground nests built by ants.
Mark Twain wrote about ants in his 1880 book A Tramp Abroad. [230] Some modern authors have used the example of the ants to comment on the relationship between society and the individual. Examples are Robert Frost in his poem "Departmental" and T. H. White in his fantasy novel The Once and Future King.
The ants have enough and tackle and shove Lucas into the queen's chamber, and the queen confronts him about all of the trouble he has caused the colony. When Lucas is too shocked to even respond to her, the queen takes it as an insult, and orders an ant wizard to shrink the boy down to the size of an ant and take him to trial, where the judge ...
Ants want to shelter from the pounding raindrops, but their underground colonies can get flooded. They also can be swept away in the downpour, since ants, like most insects, can float.
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Children's literature portal; The Ant and the Elephant is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Bill Peet and was adapted into a family musical for the stage. [1] [2] Published by HMH Books for Young Readers in 1972, it is based on the Aesop Fable entitled The Dove and the Ant.
We Are the Ants is a young adult science fiction novel by Shaun David Hutchinson, published January 19, 2016 by Simon Pulse [1] with a 24-page companion story, "What We Pretend to Be", published on the publisher's website, Riveted, later that year. [2] The book follows Henry, whose boyfriend recently committed suicide.
Most organisms forage, hunt, or use photosynthesis to get food, but around 50 million years ago — long before humans were around — ants began cultivating and growing their own food.