Ants on a Eucalyptus tree
When Kerri was at the University of Chicago and I was visiting she took me to hear E. O. Wilson, the world's foremost scientist on ants and Pulitzer Prize winner. He spoke and showed photos for 2 hours and I thought I'd be bored out of my gourd but was instead fascinated.
“Ants control every millimetre of the Earth’s surface wherever they live, which is most places,” says Mark Moffett, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, US, who in 2011 published a book called Adventures Among Ants.
When they swarmed my kitchen counters a few weeks ago for days I hated them with a passion but we do share the world with them. Estimates of ant population vary from 10 trillion to a million trillion. Makes your skin crawl to think about it.
Ants on a Eucalyptus tree
When Kerri was at the University of Chicago and I was visiting she took me to hear E. O. Wilson, the world's foremost scientist on ants and Pulitzer Prize winner. He spoke and showed photos for 2 hours and I thought I'd be bored out of my gourd but was instead fascinated.
“Ants control every millimetre of the Earth’s surface wherever they live, which is most places,” says Mark Moffett, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, US, who in 2011 published a book called Adventures Among Ants.
When they swarmed my kitchen counters a few weeks ago for days I hated them with a passion but we do share the world with them. Estimates of ant population vary from 10 trillion to a million trillion. Makes your skin crawl to think about it.