The Fire Ants

by Walter R. Tschinkel

Book Overview

Walter Tschinkel's passion for fire ants has been stoked by over thirty years of exploring the rhythm and drama of Solenopsis invicta's biology. Since South American fire ants arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1940s, they have spread to become one of the most reviled pests in the Sunbelt.

In Fire Ants Tschinkel provides not just an encyclopedic overview of S. invicta--how they found colonies, construct and defend their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072405
• ISBN13: 9780674072404
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 9.2"