Helps in the identification of the 1500 or more ant species occurring in monsoonal Australia.
They act as predators and competitors of other arthropods, and are an important food source for other animals. The book provides details on separating genera from those which are superficially similar and those which are commonly confused.
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The first practical guide to to identifying Australian ant genera since Dr John Greenslade's "A guide to ants of South Australia" in 1979. Includes a natural history and photographic and scientific key for indentification.
"A well worked fantasy." — Kirkus. While stranded in a desert of central Australia, a small fossil-hunting expedition makes an unexpected discovery from prehistory: living colonies of six-foot-tall ants and giant mantises.
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This is to provide practitioners, and students of rangeland management and wildland conservation with a diversity of perspectives on a central question: can rangelands be wildlands?
Campbell, J. O. 1947. ... Wallis, L., Smith, M., Roberts, R. G., Hayes, E., Lowe, K., Carah, X., Florin, S.A., McNeil, J., Cox, D., Arnold, L. J., Hua, Q., Huntley, J., Brand, H. E. A., Manne, T., Fairbairn, A., Shulmeister, J., Lyle, ...
... Singapore ant , 107 , 109 Soil barriers , 87-93 Stolotermes victoriensis , 44 Stolotermes spp . , 28 , 37 , 38 Stolotermitinae , 44 Subterranean termites , 35 , 36 , 37 Subterranean tunnels , 28 Syncarpia glomulifera , 85 Jarrah ...
Science writer Eleanor Spicer Rice frames the book with a lively text that describes the life cycle of ants and explains how each species is adapted to its way of life.