Detailing his techniques for creating the intricate castings of ant nests that depict their myriad Myrmecological tunnels and chambers in what are essentially three-dimensional physical “negative” representations of the nests that would be equally appropriate in a museum of natural history or one of modern art, Prof. Tschinkel then goes on to use these castings to explain the engineering skills and life histories of the remarkable creatures responsible for them.
The feeling was really more of being struck the being stung. Standing on the hillside behind our Oregon home, I must have been 15 or 16 years old. I was performing some chore my father has set me to – clearing weeds most likely as I was using hoe when the incident occurred. I remember […]
To say that Edward O. Wilson wrote the book on ants is neither to exaggerate nor employ a metaphor; it was written in scholastic partnership with his long-time scientific collaborator Bert Hölldobler, titled “The Ants,” and published in 1990. In 1991 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.