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Volume 41, Number 1, January 1995:
Collection and Maintenance of Ants
and
Studying Ants: A Beginning
by Mark B. DuBois

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- collection
- maintenance, observation ant farm
- maintenance, classroom use
- project observations
- literature cited
- books for children on ants

Studying Ants: A Beginning
by Mark B. DuBois

- males, queens and worker ants
- establishing a colony
- caring for young
- growth of an ant colony
- ant senses
- gardening ants
- harvester ants
- parasitic ants
- acrobat ants
- army ants
- questions, activities and investigations with ants
- further reading


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Collection and Maintenance of Ants to Use for Teaching
by Roger D. Akre, Laurel D. Hansen, and Elizabeth A. Myhre

and

Studying Ants: A Beginning
by Mark B. DuBois

FURTHER READING

These references represent a start toward learning more about ants. Check the literature citations within these works for even more sources. At last count (1994), there were over 18,300 scientific publications on ants!

Cole, AC 1968. Pogonomyrmex Harvester Ant. A Study of the Genus in North America. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. x +222 pp.

Creighton, W.S. 1950. The Ants of North America. Bull. Museum Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 104: 1-585.

Crosland, M.W.J., R.H. Crozier, and H.T. Imai. 1988. Evidence for Several Sibling Biological Species Centered on Myrmecia pilosula (F. Smith) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 13-14.

DuBois, M.B. 1981. Two New Species of Inquilinous Monomorium from North America (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Univ. of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 31-37.

DuBois, MB 1985. Distribution of Ants in Kansas: Subfamilies Ponerinae, Ecitoninae, and Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 11(2): 153-187.

DuBois, MB 1994. Checklist of Kansas Ants. Kansas School Naturalist 40(2): 1-16.

DuBois, MB and J. Danoff-Burg. 1994. Distribution of Ants in Kansas: Subfamilies Dolichoderinae and Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 24(2): 147-178.

Holldobler, B. and E.O. Wilson. 1990. The Ants. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA x + 732 pp.

Holldobler, B. and E.O. Wilson. 1994. Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 228 pp.

Talbot, M. and C.H. Kennedy. 1940. The Slave-making Ant, Formica sanguinea subintegra Emery, its Raids, Nuptial Flights and Nest Structure. Annals Entomological Society of America 33(3): 560-577

Topoff, H. 1994. The Ant Who Would Be Queen. Natural History 103(8): 40-47.

Weber, N.A. 1972. Gardening Ants: The Attines. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 92: xvii + 146 pp.

Wilson, E.O. 1955. A Monographic Revision of the Ant Genus Lasius. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 113(1): 1-201, 2 pl.

Wilson, E.O. 1971. The Insect Societies. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA x + 548 pp.



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