Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
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.
They usually do so when the temperature is warmer and will re-emerge in the late summer or early fall. [5] Mosquitoes also are reported to undergo aestivation. [6] False honey ants are well known for being winter active and aestivate in temperate climates. Bogong moths will aestivate over the summer to avoid the heat and lack of food sources. [7]
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 ...
Leafcutter ants live only in South America, Mexico, Central America, and a few select areas of the Southern United States, including Texas.. There are at least 55 distinct species of leaf cutter ...
Journey to the Ants: a Story of Scientific Exploration is a 1994 book by the evolutionary biologist Bert Hölldobler and the biologist Edward O. Wilson.The book was written as a popularized account for the layman of the science earlier presented in their book The Ants (1990), which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1991.
The Science magazine reviewer described the book as a "mighty tome" and commented that it would "surely take its place among the greatest of all entomology books", as it was "a wonderful exploration of almost every ramification of evolutionary biology, from developmental biology to the structure of ecological communities". The illustrations are ...