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#1 Offline Boog - Posted January 31 2020 - 9:12 PM

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Felicatations, fellow formiculture folk! I thought I'd share my ant library and will hopefully update with pics, thoughts/review, and more ant books to come. I've read some of these and slowly making my way through them while some of the complex ones I use more as reference. For an entry suggestion, I would check out Journey to the Ants, Adventures Among Ants, Secret Lives of Ants, or Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants. I saw a couple threads about books suggestion and ANTdrew's post so thought I'd compile mine: https://www.formicul...s/?fromsearch=1

 

There's a NEW book I'm excited for, comes out Feb 4th called Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant by Rüdiger Wehner about Cataglyphis desert ants that's 400 pages! Will update when that comes out.

 

THE LIST:

Agosti, Donat and Jonathan D. Majer, Leeanne E. Alonso & Ted R. Schultz. Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Bolton, Barry. Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Choe, Jae. Secret Lives of Ants. Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Fisher, Brian L. and Stefan P. Cover. Ants of North America: A Guide to the Genera. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2007.

Klotz, John and Laurel D. Hansen. Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada. New York: Cornell University Press, 2005.

Klotz, John and Laurel D. Hansen, Reiner Pospischil & Michael Rust. Urban Ants of North America and Europe: Identification, Biology, and Management. New York: Cornell University Press, 2008.

Hayes, Angela. Ant Farms - Ultimate Formicarium Handbook: Detailed Step-by-Step Guide on Setting Up a Thriving Ant Colony. Delaware: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.

Hölldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson. The Ants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990.

Hölldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson. Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.

Hölldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson. The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.

Hölldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson. The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Luckhurst, Tori. Ant Farms - Ant Farms Guide: Ant Farms and Raising Colonies of Ants as Pets. USA: Zoodoo Publishing, 2017.

Moffett, Mark W. Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2010.

Rice, Eleanor Spicer and Rob Dunn. Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Tschinkel, Walter R. The Fire Ants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: First Harvard University Press, 2006.

Wilson, Edward O. and José M. Gómez Durán. Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World. Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2010.


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#2 Online ANTdrew - Posted February 1 2020 - 11:17 AM

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Nice, man! I definitely want to look into the Desert Navigator book and the Fire Ants book.

 A superb book I just finished is Buzz Sting Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson. It's a fun read about all insects in general.


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#3 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 1 2020 - 11:19 AM

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interesting title lol, but sounds interesting...


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#4 Online ANTdrew - Posted February 1 2020 - 11:51 AM

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Originally published in Norwegian, so go figure.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#5 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 1 2020 - 11:53 AM

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lol


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