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Author | : Joshua Blu Buhs |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0226079848 |
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Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, a coterie of fire ants came ashore from South American ships docked in Mobile, Alabama. Fanning out across the region, the fire ants invaded the South, damaging crops, harassing game animals, and hindering harvesting methods. Responding to a collective call from southerners to eliminate these invasive pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture developed a campaign that not only failed to eradicate the fire ants but left a wake of dead wildlife, sickened cattle, and public protest. With political intrigue, environmental tragedy, and such figures as Rachel Carson and E. O. Wilson, The Fire Ant Wars is a grippingly perceptive tale of changing social attitudes and scientific practices. Tracing the political and scientific eradication campaigns, Joshua Buhs's bracing study uses the saga as a means to consider twentieth-century American concepts of nature and environmental stewardship. In telling the story, Buhs explores how human concepts of nature evolve and how these ideas affect the natural and social worlds. Spotlighting a particular issue to discuss larger questions of science, public perceptions, and public policy—from pre-environmental awareness to the activist years of the early environmental movement—The Fire Ant Wars will appeal to historians of science, environmentalists, and biologists alike.
Author | : Gerry Finley-Day |
Publisher | : 2000 AD |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2018-02-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781781086223 |
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Ant Wars is an exhilarating take on classic sci-fi B-movies of the fifties and sixties. PEST CONTROL ISN'T GOING TO FLY WHEN THE BIG BUGS BITE BACK! When military personnel spray an untested insecticide on ants in the Brazilian rainforest, the colony mutate into super-intelligent creatures with a taste for human flesh! As the terrifying army head closer towards civilisation, Captain Villa and a young forest native race ahead in the vain attempt to warn a thoroughly unprepared world! Also includes Zancudo - bonus story by Si Spurrier and Cam Kennedy! COMICS MOST HIGHLY ANT-ICIPATED CLASSIC RETURNS!
Author | : Mark W. Moffett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-05-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0520945417 |
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Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo. Moffett’s spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so that we can observe ants in familiar roles; warriors, builders, big-game hunters, and slave owners. We find them creating marketplaces and assembly lines and dealing with issues we think of as uniquely human—including hygiene, recycling, and warfare. Adventures among Ants introduces some of the world’s most awe-inspiring species and offers a startling new perspective on the limits of our own perception. • Ants are world-class road builders, handling traffic problems on thoroughfares that dwarf our highway systems in their complexity • Ants with the largest societies often deploy complicated military tactics • Some ants have evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers, domesticating other insects and growing crops for food
Author | : A. A. Mabelis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Aggressive behavior in animals |
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Author | : Walter R. Tschinkel |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 2013-03-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0674072405 |
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Walter Tschinkel’s passion for fire ants has been stoked by over thirty years of exploring the rhythm and drama of Solenopsis invicta’s biology. Since South American fire ants arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1940s, they have spread to become one of the most reviled pests in the Sunbelt. In The Fire Ants, Tschinkel provides not just an encyclopedic overview of S. invicta—how they found colonies, construct and defend their nests, forage and distribute food, struggle among themselves for primacy, and even relocate entire colonies—but a lively account of how research is done, how science establishes facts, and the pleasures and problems of a scientific career. Between chapters detailed enough for experts but readily accessible to any educated reader, “interludes” provide vivid verbal images of the world of fire ants and the people who study them. Early chapters describe the several failed, and heavily politically influenced, eradication campaigns, and later ones the remarkable spread of S. invicta’s “polygyne” form, in which nests harbor multiple queens and colonies reproduce by “budding.” The reader learns much about ants, the practice of science, and humans’ role in the fire ant’s North American success.
Author | : Michael DeForge |
Publisher | : Drawn and Quarterly |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
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From its opening pages, Ant Colony immerses the reader in a world that is darkly existential, with false prophets, unjust wars, and corrupt police officers, as it follows the denizens of a black ant colony under attack from the nearby red ants. On the surface, it's the story of this war, the destruction of a civilization, and the ants' all too familiar desire to rebuild. Underneath, though, Ant Colony plumbs the deepest human concerns--loneliness, faith, love, apathy, and more. All of this is done with humor and sensitivity, exposing a world where spiders can wreak unimaginable amounts of havoc with a single gnash of their jaws.
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Publisher | : PediaPress |
Total Pages | : 235 |
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Author | : Bert Hölldobler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 1998-07-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674254589 |
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Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects’ evolutionary achievement.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
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ISBN | : 9789381703854 |
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Author | : John Woodward |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Ants |
ISBN | : 1438132972 |
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In spite of their miniature size, ants are known for their hardworking nature. These tiny creatures are able to dig massive tunnel systems and lift objects more than 10 times their body weight. Ant brings readers closer to the resourceful insects that are so prevalent in gardens around the world.