Last month some of you indicated that you would be interested in discussing The Fire Ants by Walter Tschinkel. Take a look at the review and if it would be something you’d like to participate in, be sure to leave a comment with your answers to the questions at the bottom of this post. And [...]
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Related to the last post about Southern fire ants, have you seen The Fire Ants by Walter R. Tschinkel? You would think that a book that is over 700 pages long about a single topic, and fire ants at that, would be pretty dreadful reading. Surprise! The Fire Ants has all the elements of a [...] My copy of The Leafcutter Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson came today. I had to laugh. The blurb on the back starts out: “The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced.” This is a skimpy book. At 160 pages, it is about the size of [...] What do you think? Am I being too picky here? I just got a children’s book at the library about ants that I found, well, underwhelming to say the least. The lukewarm feelings start at the cover. Aren’t those jaws scary? Is this the perfect message for a child interested in ants? How about the title? Would [...] |
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