Synopsis
Not mighty in size, but mighty in resourcefulness and industry, the ant has crawled the earth since prehistoric times. It has dwelt in rain-forest tree trunks and acorns of oak trees, beneath logs, and under sidewalks. It has protected forests by capturing insects, cleared weeds away
from acacia trees, and by growing gardens has released important nutrients into the soil.
Seed-lifters, dirt-diggers, social beings, ants have the most advanced brain of all insects!
So watch where you step, especially on a warm day: a small but mighty ant may be
underfoot.
Annotation
Describes the evolution, physical characteristics, behavior, and social nature of ants.
The New York Times
Charles Micucci's latest nonfiction book, The Life and Times of the Ant , slices open an anthill for the reader, spilling out armies of ant facts. Micucci, the author and illustrator of several close-ups of natural life, including The Life and Times of the Honeybee , knows how to grab his audience. He links two of childhood's consuming interests, dinosaurs and insects, with an arresting fact: Ants were tunneling under dinosaurs 100 million years ago. Dinosaurs perished. Now ants tunnel under us. — Connie Fletcher
Biography
Charles Micucci's other books with Houghton Mifflin include The Life and Times of the Honeybee and The Life and Times of the Peanut. He lives in New York City.
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