In qThe Fire Ants, q Walter Tschinkel provides not just an encyclopedic overview of qSolenopsis invictaq but a lively account of how research is done, how science establishes facts, and the pleasures and problems of a scientific career. The reader learns much about ants, the practice of science, and humans' role in the fire ant's North American success.... on their opportunity and reproduce rapidly before the resource becomes unsuitable, leaving their progeny to search the wind again. ... Rotting fruit, carrion , and feces are therefore very suitable for experimental studies on the effects of S. invicta on insect communities. ... Because dung and the community of insects exploiting it age rather quickly, the researchers hung around pastures to watch the cowsanbsp;...
Title | : | The Fire Ants |
Author | : | Walter Reinhart Tschinkel |
Publisher | : | Harvard University Press - 2006 |
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