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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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Index
abundance, of ants, 1
acacia ants, 200–202
Acanthapsis (assassin bug), 134
Acanthognathus, 2
Acanthomyops (citronella ants), 56
Acropyga, 147
Aenictus (army ants), 168
Allotinus (blue, butterfly), 155
altruism, genetics and origin of, 95–106
amazon ants. See Polyergus
Amblyopone, 83–84
Amphotis (beetles), 134
Andersen, Alan, 199
ant gardens, 204
ant plants, 200–204
Aphaenogaster, 55
aphids, 143–147
army ants, 33–34, 107–110, 157–174. See also Dorylus; Eciton; Leptanilla; Neivamyrmex
assassin bugs, 134–135
Atemeles (rove beetle), 136–138
Atta (leafcutter ants), 54, 111–122
Autrum, Hans-Jochem, 18
Baltic amber. See fossils
Banks, Joseph, 47–48
Bartz, Stephen, 86–88
Basiceros (camouflaged ants), 185–187
Beck, L., 6
beetles, 133–134, 136–141
behavioral repertory, 107
Belt, Thomas, 159, 201
Bhatkar, Awinash, 219
Bhatkar diet, 219
biomass, 1, 6
birds, with army ants, 161
blues (butterflies), 151–155
Boveri, Theodor, 17–18
Brachymyrmex, 107–108
Bradshaw, John, 46
Brandäo, C. Roberto, 79, 183
Brown, James, 198–199
Brown, William L., 77, 80, 180–181
bulldog ants. See Myrmecia
Buschinger, Alfred, 126
butterflies, 151–155, 161
camouflage, 185–187
Camponotus, 30, 52, 55, 67, 103–104, 105, 107–108, 203–204
Cariridris, 79
Carlin, Norman, 103–104
Carpenter, Frank M., 18, 76
carpenter ants. See Camponotus
caste, 111–122, 159–160
Cataglyphis, 95, 193
chemical communication, 42, 44–47, 88, 137–141
Cherix, Daniel, 40
Cladomyrma, 147
Clark, John, 80
class structure, 91–93
climate control, 191–204
Cole, Blaine, 90
collecting ants, 209–212
colony founding, 34–35, 113
colony odor, 101–104, 123
colony replacement, 38–39
colony size, 29, 115
communication, 41–58
competition, 8–12
conflict, within colonies, 85–93. See also territory; wars
cooperation, 95–106
corpse disposal, 105–106
Cuba, 187–188
culturing ants, 213–224
dacetine ants, 178–182
Daceton (trap-jawed ants), 181–182
Darwin, Charles, 96–98
Davidson, Diane, 203–204
Dejean, Alain, 180
Diacamma, 90, 195
Diniz, J. L. M., 183
diversity, 3–7
Dolichoderus, 135, 147–151
dominance, 85–93
Dorylus (driver ants), 107–110, 167–168
driver ants. See Dorylus
drone. See male ants
dueling, 91–93
dulosis, 126–131
Eciton (army ants), 132–133, 157–168, 171
egg eating, 88
environmental control, 191–204
Escherich, Karl, 17–18
ethology, 13–14
evolution. See geological history, phylogeny
exploding ants, 67
Fiedler, Konrad, 153–154
Finland, 2–3
fire ants. See Solenopsis
Fittkau, E. J., 6
foreign policy, 68–73
Forel, Auguste, 128
Forelius, 64–65
Formica, 2–3, 10–11, 33, 39–40, 130–131, 13...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- The Dominance of Ants
- For the Love of Ants
- The Life and Death of the Colony
- How Ants Communicate
- War and Foreign Policy
- The Ur-Ants
- Conflict and Dominance
- The Origin of Cooperation
- The Superorganism
- Social Parasites: Breaking the Code
- The Trophobionts
- Army Ants
- The Strangest Ants
- How Ants Control Their Environment
- Epilogue: Who Will Survive?
- How to Study Ants
- Acknowledgments
- Index