The Leafcutter Ants

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of an ant species ever pro [...]
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of an ant species ever produced. Each colony of leafcutters contains up to five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live for over a decade. A nest can stretch nine metres across, rise one and a half metres or more above ground and can reach over seven metres below ground. The leafcutter ants have expanded their instinctive civilisation into a virtual domination of the land from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism (ISBN 978 0 393 06704 0), this is the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.