The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced.
With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earths most evolved animal societies.
Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade.
A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface.
Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland--from Louisiana to Patagonia.
Inspired by a section of the authors acclaimed The Superorganism , this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.
