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London, England

© 2010 by Mark W. Moffett

Title page: A Bornean carpenter ant, Camponotus schmitzi, traveling along the spiral base of a pitcher plant. The ant fishes prey out of the liquid-filled pitcher of this carnivorous plant (see photograph on page 142).

Ogden Nash’s “The Ant” © 1935 by Ogden Nash is reprinted with permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Design and composition: Jody Hanson

Text: 9.5/14 Scala

Display: Grotesque Condensed

Indexing: Victoria Baker

Printed through: Asia Pacific Offset, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moffett, Mark W.

Adventures among ants : a global safari with a cast of trillions / Mark W. Moffett.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-520-26199-0 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Ants—Behavior. 2. Ant communities. 3. Ants—Ecology. I. Title.

QL568.F7M64 2010

595.79'615—dc22

2009040610

Manufactured in China

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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of

ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R 1997)