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Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects - with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark - as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike, ants decompose dead wood, turn over soil (in some places more than earthworms) , and even help plant forests by distributing seeds. But while fewer than thirty of the nearly one thousand ant species living in North America are true pests, we cringe when we see them marching across our kitchen floors. No longer! In this witty, accessible, and beautifully illustrated guide, Eleanor Spicer Rice, Alex Wild, and Rob Dunn metamorphose creepy-crawly revulsion into myrmecological wonder. Emerging from Dunn's ambitious citizen science project Your Wild Life (an initiative based at North Carolina State University) and the work of Brian Fisher with the California Academy of Sciences, Dr.
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I'm Eleanor Spicer Rice. I have a Ph. D. in entomology, where I studied ants and how they shape the natural world. Today, I write about ants and the amazing life with which we spend our days. I hope that we will all take a minute to look down, under, and around us to recognize our own connection with nature. It's walking across our countertops, resting in our porch plants, singing in our city trees, and sleeping on our foreheads. Once we discover it, I hope we will want to keep it safe.
