
Ants: Workers of the World
Eleanor Spicer Rice(Author)
Eduard Florin Niga(Photographer)
Abrams (Publisher)
Published on 13. May 2021
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-4197-4849-3 (ISBN)
Description
Nature's most successful insects captured in remarkable macrophotography
In Ants,
photographer Eduard Florin Niga brings us incredibly close to the most
numerous animals on Earth, whose ability to organize colonies,
communicate among themselves, and solve complex problems has made them
an object of endless fascination. Among the more than 30 species
photographed by Niga are leafcutters that grow fungus for food, trap-jaw
ants with fearsome mandibles, bullet ants with potent stingers,
warriors, drivers, gliders, harvesters, and the pavement ants that are
always underfoot. Among his most memorable images are
portraits-including queens, workers, soldiers, and rarely seen
males-that bring the reader face-to-face with these creatures whose
societies are eerily like our own. Science writer Eleanor Spicer Rice
frames the book with a lively text that describes the life cycle of ants
and explains how each species is adapted to its way of life. Ants
is a great introduction to some of the Earth's most successful
creatures that showcases the power of photography to reveal the unseen
world all around us.
In Ants,
photographer Eduard Florin Niga brings us incredibly close to the most
numerous animals on Earth, whose ability to organize colonies,
communicate among themselves, and solve complex problems has made them
an object of endless fascination. Among the more than 30 species
photographed by Niga are leafcutters that grow fungus for food, trap-jaw
ants with fearsome mandibles, bullet ants with potent stingers,
warriors, drivers, gliders, harvesters, and the pavement ants that are
always underfoot. Among his most memorable images are
portraits-including queens, workers, soldiers, and rarely seen
males-that bring the reader face-to-face with these creatures whose
societies are eerily like our own. Science writer Eleanor Spicer Rice
frames the book with a lively text that describes the life cycle of ants
and explains how each species is adapted to its way of life. Ants
is a great introduction to some of the Earth's most successful
creatures that showcases the power of photography to reveal the unseen
world all around us.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Illustrations
80 colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 299 mm
Width: 287 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4197-4849-3 (9781419748493)
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Eduard Florin Niga specializes in the macrophotography of insects. He lives in London. Eleanor Spicer Rice is an entomologist and author of Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Arts. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.