Gordon, an ecologist and member of the Stanford faculty for 10 years, is the author of "Ants at Work," published in 1999. The book, based on ... are causing a vertebrate to go extinct," Ward ...

and Truly Nolen would go out of business. The underground scenes are the most interesting and humorous. Friendly ants show Lucas how specialists work together to keep the machine humming.

The Grahams employ the school bus ditty "The Ants Go Marching One by One," to exhort ... The real fun of the book is in savoring Graham Philpot's cutaway views of an expansive underground kingdom.

"Ants are one of the hot topics with our company," said Joey Sims, owner of the company, Sims Pest Control. "People go away on vacation and when they return, their kitchens may be wrapped up in ants.

No. They’re Argentine ants. And you can spray them ... as these persistent pests are called in academic circles, simply come and go with the weather, it turns out, regardless of how clean ...

Twenty years ago, the savannah was covered with them. These trees provided food and shelter for native acacia ants and in turn, the ants defended the trees against animals, like elephants ...

So when she returned home to find swarms of ants in her kitchen, she was livid. “There were no crumbs to be had,” she said. She’d never seen ants there before, and had not expected to ...

For years entomologists have been trying to figure out why ants work in the ways they do. Through years of my own research, and as an experienced "antomologist," I've discovered the answer ...