Ant books by Bert Holldobler

 

     Belknap Press of Harvard University Press will be publishing a new ant book by Bert Holldobler and Christina L. Kwapich on 19 July 2022 titled: The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts.  It promises to be: "A fascinating examination of socially parasitic invaders, from butterflies to bacteria, that survive and thrive by exploiting the communication systems of ant colonies."

     If you're unfamiliar with Holldobler's previous works, he (along with Edward O. Wilson) published these two titles also from Belknap Press of Harvard University Press:

 

 

1) The Ants. 1990. Hardbound: 732 pages. Price: $161.50 U.S.

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world’s leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and paintings, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing views of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology.

REMARK: This title won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1991. 

 

 

2) Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration. 1994. Paperback: 228 pages. Price: $33.00 U.S.

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects’ evolutionary achievement.

REMARK: I see this title as a companion to the The Ants book above.