"Summary Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants-from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. " Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony. . . . Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg," writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea,...

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Brief text discusses the life cycle, behavior, and physical characteristics of ants.

Determined to make his way to a plump, crisp cabbage across the road, Snail risks speeding cars and hungry crows during a long and slow journey, before getting lost while helping a crew of ants escape a rainstorm.

A song in which an ant pleads with the kid who is tempted to squish it.

The happy-go-lucky grasshopper fiddles and frolics through the summer days but the ants are not so carefree. Not even the Queen of All the Ants can convince the grasshopper that he'll be sorry if he doesn't gather food before winter.

During an unwelcome visit, neighbor Tarquin unwittingly uses SWITCH spray to turn twins Josh and Danny into ants, then sets out with a magnifying glass to fry some bugs.

In this creative take on metamorphosis, ant friends Leaf and Lou wonder what Gramma Tinker, an old caterpillar, means when she says she’ll be spending two weeks in her latest invention, the Wingmaker 77, and will emerge “changed.”

Be it tied to a balloon, or kite, or hanging a picture, or stringing a banjo or a mop, a bird explains to an ant how long a string needs to be.

"It's another busy day at the ant hill. The farmer ants are collecting food, the worker ants are building tunnels and the soldier ants are guarding the queen. But for Andy, it's a very special day: it's his birthday! Word spreads for his 'small gathering' and, in no time at all, thousands of ants arrive to bust their best moves and tuck into dips. But as the party gets into full swing an unwanted guest arrives...The ants must work together to save...