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The Fire Ants (Paperback)
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The Fire Ants (Paperback)
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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 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.
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