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Robert McNair Price born July 7, is an American theologian and writer, known for arguing against the existence of a historical Jesus the Christ myth theory. He taught philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. A former Baptist minister, he was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from until it ceased publication in He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H.

The Philosophical Vision of Rush , on the rock band Rush. Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of writers and scholars who study the historicity of Jesus, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity,[8] and sits on the advisor Unsolved Mysteries began with a series of television specials, airing on NBC from to The program was picked up in and aired a total of nine seasons during its run on the network.

The series was then acquired by CBS in , where it continued for a short run of 2 seasons. In , Lifetime acquired the series where it finished its original run in , followed shortly by the death of regular host Robert Stack. The series ran in syndication for a number of years until it was resurrected by Spike TV in The new series featured host Dennis Farina profiling cases from the previous series, with new updates and reenactments, before ending its run in Pontius Pilate ;[2][3][4] Latin: The sources for Pilate's life are an inscription known as the Pilate Stone, which confirms his historicity and establishes his title as prefect; a brief mention by Tacitus; Philo of Alexandria; Josephus; the four canonical gospels; the Acts of the Apostles; the First Epistle to Timothy; the Gospel of Nicodemus; the Gospel of Marcion; and other apocryphal works.

Once in his post he offended the religious sensibilities of his subjects, leading to harsh criticism from Philo, and many decades later, Josephus. According to Josephus, who wrote about it around AD 93,[6] Pilat Words The following are taken from Sharp's English Folk-Carols , the publication that first established the current words and melody: The rising of the sun And the running of the deer, The playing of the merry organ, Sweet singing in the choir.

He first visits Jesus one night to discuss Jesus' teachings John 3: The second time Nicodemus is mentioned, he reminds his colleagues in the Sanhedrin that the law requires that a person be heard before being judged John 7: Finally, Nicodemus appears after the Crucifixion of Jesus to provide the customary embalming spices, and assists Joseph of Arimathea in preparing the body of Jesus for burial John An apocryphal work under his name—the Gospel of Nicodemus—was produced in the mid-4th century, and is mostly a reworking of the earlier Acts of Pilate, which recounts the harrowing of Hell.

Although there is no clear source of information about Nicodemus outside the Gospel of John, the Jewish Encyclopedia and some historians[1] have speculated that he could be identical to Nicodemus ben Gurion, mentioned in the Talmud as a w Guthrie, William Keith Chambers Orpheus and Greek Religion. Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Oxford University Press, p. The book claims so they told me that everything in the Gospels reflects, because it was in fact borrowed from, much older pagan myths; that Jesus never existed; that the early church knew it was propagating a new version of an old myth; and that the developed church covered this up in the interests of its own power and control.

The producer was friendly, and took my point when I said that this was like asking a professional astronomer to debate with the authors of a book claiming the moon was made of green cheese. The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth.

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He and his late wife, Mary, started the business in , with their children, Emily and Matthew. Goodell divides his time between Grosse Pointe and Burdickville, Michigan. Degree in Journalism from The University of Mississippi. She has written for several daily and weekly newspapers and taught Journalism and was Publications Advisor in three Texas high schools and at Stephen F.

Jeanne Guzman was born and raised in Maryland, but got to Texas as fast as she could. When they're not traveling around Texas in their motor coach, you can find Jeanne sitting in her home office typing away at her computer. Jeanne also writes Urban Fantasy and Romantic Women's fiction. Gay Ingram began her writing career as a result of a passionate interest in herbs. She published a bi-monthly newsletter for five years along with several informational booklets and soft cover books about herbs.

A creative writing course offered by Tyler Junior College launched Ms. Ingram into fiction writing. Her second novel, Troubled Times, came out in and Twist of Fate, her most recent novel became available in In her long writing career, Gay Ingram has enjoyed the rewards of sharing about courageous ordinary people experiencing extraordinary circumstances. Artists and writers both, they were born and raised in East Texas, hearing, speaking, and soaking in the idioms and metaphors that churn the culture of the region.

Whatever has drawn Julie and Mary Kay to write about the fictional Jeterville, it is as real as the stubborn, red-clay, creek-crossed, mosquito-infested land itself. Both became friends almost instantly and have been collaborating on writing and painting ever since. Julie has taught art to pre-schoolers, senior adults and every age between. Mary Kay has worked with all ages, abilities and genres in teaching writing and coaching writers. The pair have shared their creative abilities in retreats, in assisted living facilities, with immigrants and the homeless.

Justice in Jeterville is their first book together, although each has published her own work. Julie has written children's books, poems, songs, and plays; Mary Kay has published poems, essays, blogs for her church, and articles in academic journals. They are already researching and drafting their second mystery, Missing in Memphis , and their third, No Mercy in New Orleans.

Their main characters, E. Kemp Bill and Beverly. Kemp have owned and managed a food service company in Austin, Texas. Webber and Sylvia Hector once lived and worked the land. When not developing his own work, he writes novel reviews professionally for multiple organizations. Joe lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, an accomplished painter, plus a dog, two cats, and various animals that occasionally wander by. Pamela Flynt Knight has always had a heart for people. She has enjoyed a wide range of experiences both personally and professionally in her life. She feels it is a blessing that she was on the steering committee as a stand-in for the State Representative she worked for in when what is now, the Pregnancy Resource Center of Grand Prairie began.

She has been a regular volunteer, Board member and behind the scenes person. She has participated as she could through the years, and the experience has enriched her knowledge and faith. She spent over two years finding, and interviewing volunteers, and developing the stories within these pages because she knows firsthand that the staff and volunteers are the heart of the ministry. Here are some of the stories as to why they serve. Priscilla Kohutek is a native Texan, a prolific writer, and a published author.

She holds degrees in History and Government and has a solid background in English, literature, and politics. Her life is rich with unusual experiences, having spent 25 years living and writing in the Far East where her nonfiction works appeared regularly in major magazines and leading newspapers. Priscilla also was the managing editor of an important cultural magazine, a radio talk show host, and a frequent guest on television shows.

Her "Ask Priscilla" lifestyle and decorating column ran continuously for 20 years in magazines and newspapers in three countries until she shifted gears to focus exclusively on Olivia Garza's extraordinary story. Priscilla and her husband, Ed, live in San Antonio and are involved in numerous local and national charitable organizations.

When not writing, volunteering, or enjoying family time, they are probably at a cat show, exhibiting their two award-winning British Shorthairs, Professor Higgins and Lord Chesterfield. Otherwise, they're traveling the world in search of another adventure. David Von Kotzebue was born in the US Army Airborne Center, where the doctors didn't catch him; he jumped out in a perfect parachute landing fall.

This fall explains his weird life as a screenwriter, songwriter, poet and novelist. He is a graduate of the U. He has written several screenplays, including musicals. He has had two stage musicals produced: He has penned hundreds of songs, including those for his musicals.

Francis, then the largest private film studio west of the Mississippi. She has published five science-fiction novels: Which White Bird Publications are now republishing. She is presently at work on several screenplays and four separate novel writing projects, as well as two non-fiction books and three blogs. Her writing blog, at: Beth Lauzier has always had a love of books. She can still remember her father reading stories before bedtime.

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Now, as an adult, she wants to share her love of reading with other children. When not working or reading she enjoys spending time with her Doberman Pincher, Mocha. Jean Lauzier was born and raised in Arkansas. She now lives in Longview, Texas with her husband and three children. When not writing, you can find Jean talking to her bonsai plants, trying to train the cat or procrastinating on the computer. Her short stories have been published by Mysterical-e, Golden Visions, Crimson Dagger, Mouthful of Bullets and numerous other places along with winning several contests.

As a career Air Force officer he served in the military space program, participating in ballistic missile tests, launch of various military spacecraft, and support of the Apollo space program. Subsequently, Lawrence was a candidate for US Congress, an ambassador for the humanitarian Global Peace Initiative, a business executive, and served on several boards of directors.

He has been a prolific writer even during his professional career, authoring innumerable journal articles and professional publications, and has won several awards for fiction. He and his wife, Ellen, reside in a lakefront home in a rural area of Northeast Texas.

Joel Lee is an author and storyteller who brings his passion for entertaining narrative to his new novel, Dead Men Running. Growing up in East Tennessee in the foothills of Appalachia, he was surrounded by stories from a young age and loves nothing more than spinning a good yarn. As former Assistant Editor of the Roanoke Review literary publication, he has also helped other authors achieve their publication goals. Cyndi Lord moved to NE Texas in where she lives on a ranch with her husband, two dogs, and two cats.

An award winning author, she recently decided to go into semi-retirement from her career as a private investigator and research paralegal in order to write full time. Her novels incorporate her professional experience into the plots readers love to unravel along with the investigator. She is active in a ministry to the homeless and enjoys many aspects of philosophy.

As an animal lover, she is a vegan, and strong voice against cruelty to animals. Cyndi and her husband have nine adult children, sixteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. For tranquility she loves to work in the garden, and bake. Painting nature scenes is her favorite joy after writing. Texas native Susan Mary Malone has published two novels, co-authored four nonfiction books, and written many short stories.

Her happiness is fiction, wine, and Labrador Retrievers, the latter of which she raises, trains, and shows. Literature is her love. In addition to writing, she edits; fifty-plus Malone-edited books have sold to traditional publishers, and one of them was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame film while another is in production, set to be released in Which often involves wine.

She does, however, try to keep the Labradors out of that. Chris Manno, author of the critically praised novel East Jesus, teaches writing as an adjunct professor of literature and is a full-time airline pilot. Previously, he was a USAF officer and pilot, and an intelligence analyst. As a child, Kelly Marshall always thought she would communicate in the world as a writer and someday pen a great novel. But life took a left turn and, instead, Kelly ended up at broadcasting school.

She spent the next thirty years spinning records, interviewing people, doing love song dedications and having a ball at radio stations in Virginia, Colorado, Oregon, South Dakota, California, and Washington. After thirty years, she walked away from the microphone and decided to do what she had always wanted to do…write. Kelly lives in the Pacific Northwest with her grandson, Dawson.

Marshall is a freelance writer from the bonnie banks of Scotland, she now lives in acres of natural woodland, near Hastings in East Sussex. A mother of five sons, grandmother, and a lover of all animals and wildlife. She now has a menagerie of animals of her own too, including a pet Barn Owl named Beau.

Teaching play, script and song writing, resulting in many plays being produced for the local community and beyond. Now a frequent blogger on several different platforms, she continues to entertain from the side-lines. These books are written in rhyme, specifically with the message that regardless of your looks, weaknesses or any inabilities that you can still have fun as you explore your own world.

Susan is donating all profits from this book to the When You Wish Upon a Star charity for very sick children. She enjoys outdoor activities with her best friend, Gerald Borland. Hope writes picture books, photographic essays, historical fiction, and nonfiction for children and adults. Her wildlife picture book series Windward Publishing has more than , copies in print.

Her historical novels are Against the Tide: This one was professionally adapted as a stage play. Goulson has that rare ability to persuade you to go out into your garden or local park and observe the natural world. The subtle glory that is life in all its forms is there to be discovered. And if we learn to value what we have, perhaps we will find a way to keep it. Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated with 1, drawings and superb color paintings. Illustrations — which use the unique Peterson Identification System to distinguish one insect from another — include size lines to show the actual length of each insect.

A helpful glossary explains the technical terms of insect anatomy. To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic entomologists, each body recovered at a crime scene is an ecosystem, a unique microenvironment colonized in succession by a diverse array of flies, beetles, mites, spiders, and other arthropods: Using actual cases on which he has consulted, Goff shows how knowledge of these insects and their habits allows forensic entomologists to furnish investigators with crucial evidence about crimes.

Even when a body has been reduced to a skeleton, insect evidence can often provide the only available estimate of the postmortem interval, or time elapsed since death, as well as clues to whether the body has been moved from the original crime scene, and whether drugs have contributed to the death. This is a revised second edition of the most detailed, comprehensive, and user-friendly photographic field guide to the butterflies of North America.

Written by Jeffrey Glassberg, the pioneering authority on the field identification of butterflies, the guide covers all known species, beautifully illustrating them with 3, large, gorgeous color photographs—the very best images available. This second edition includes more than new photos and updated text, maps, and species names. For most species, there are photographs of topsides and undersides, males and females, and variants. All text is embedded in the photographs, allowing swift access in the field, and arrows point to field marks, showing you exactly what to look for.

Detailed, same-page range maps include information about the number of broods in each area and where strays have been recorded. Color text boxes highlight information about habitat, caterpillar food plants, abundance and flight period, and other interesting facts. Also included are a quick visual index and a caterpillar food plant index. The result is an ideal field guide that will enable you to identify almost every butterfly you see.

Lists It Appears On:. Barely skimming the surface, in the air above the pond, swarm mayflies with diaphanous wings. Take this walk around the pond with Gilbert Waldbauer and discover the most amazingly diverse inhabitants of the freshwater world. In his hallmark companionable style, Waldbauer introduces us to the aquatic insects that have colonized ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers, especially those in North America. We encounter the caddis fly larva building its protective case and camouflaging it with stream detritus; green darner dragonflies mating midair in an acrobatic wheel formation; ants that have adapted to the tiny water environment within a pitcher plant; and insects whose adaptations to the aquatic lifestyle are furnishing biomaterials engineers with ideas for future applications in industry and consumer goods.

Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo. We find them creating marketplaces and assembly lines and dealing with issues we think of as uniquely human—including hygiene, recycling, and warfare.

This text uses a taxonomic approach to introduce students to the science of entomology. Today the , species of bee continue to play vital roles in human ecology. We survive only by grace of the life-sustaining network of bee-plant relationships. Bees immerses readers in the world of a group of insects whose diversity of form and behavior is eloquent testimony to the fine-tuning of natural selection. How do you picture your average, every-day entomologist? In Buzzwords, Berenbaum expertly blows away these stereotypes with short takes on all things entomological—from the story of a pet ant kept for 14 years to major motion pictures featuring cockroaches.

This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1, color photographs and two dozen line drawings include numerous exceptionally striking images. The giant silk moths, tiger moths, and many other species covered include forest pests, common garden guests, economically important species, and of course, the Mescal Worm and Mexican Jumping Bean caterpillars.

Full-page species accounts cover almost species, with up to six images per species including an image of the adult plus succinct text with information on distribution, seasonal activity, foodplants, and life history. These accounts are generously complemented with additional images of earlier instars, closely related species, noteworthy behaviors, and other intriguing aspects of caterpillar biology. This comprehensive guide to the butterflies of Britain and Europe features over species, depicting both male and female insects.

Species descriptions include details on taxonomic nomenclature, distribution, flight period, variation, habitat, behaviour and life cycle. Subspecies are included where there is significant variation, and distribution maps accompany each widespread species.

All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food.

Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and the eater is a central—perhaps the central—aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of the unrelenting coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us.

Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures: Based on fifty years of detailed diaries, In Pursuit of Butterflies is the chronicle of this life. Oates leads the reader through a lifetime of butterflying, across the mountain tops, the peat bogs, sea cliffs, meadows, heaths, the chalk downs and great forests of the British Isles. Full of humour, zeal, digression, expertise and anecdote, this book provides a profound encounter with one of our great butterfly lovers, and with a half-century of butterflies in Britain.

Open up this treasure trove of insects and immerse yourself in a wondrous collection of creatures as nature unfolds around you. And as you wander through, listen out for the buzzing of bees and the flitter of wings as caterpillars transform into a flutter of moths and butterflies. Dawn Cooper is a hugely talented illustrator who is inspired by natural history and botanical illustrations as well as things she has read or seen on her travels.

Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize.

Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. In , the U. The outbreaks subsided in the s, and then, suddenly—and mysteriously—the Rocky Mountain locust vanished. A century later, entomologist Jeffrey Lockwood vowed to discover why. Locust is the story of how one insect shaped the history of the western United States. A compelling personal narrative drawing on historical accounts and modern science, this beautifully written book brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest extinction mysteries of our time.

How does something as beautiful as a butterfly begin life as little more than a fancy maggot? Or something as elegant and delicate as a lacewing hatch like a minuscule escapee from a horror movie? What are the circumstances that require a creature to transform from one body shape into another, a shape that is often so utterly different from the first that you would be forgiven for thinking they were completely unrelated organisms? This book illustrates some of the dramatic transformations insects undergo in their life cycles and explores why evolution has arrived at these remarkable solutions to survival.

The aim of the book is to show remarkable transformations, most of which have never before been seen. These blood-sucking insects do more than leave us with itchy bites, though. The diseases they carry and inject, such as yellow fever, dengue fever, and the West Nile virus, make them responsible for more human deaths than any other animal.

The most deadly of these, malaria, has been mostly eradicated from the northern hemisphere, but it continues to pose a mortal threat in developing countries. It kills nearly , of the million that succumb to the infection each year, and the majority of the deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on scientific fact, historical evidence, and literary evocation, Mosquito provides a colorful portrait of this tiny insect and the notorious diseases it carries.

Mosquito is a compelling look at tropical medicine, diseases, and their connection to one of our smallest adversaries. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw—millions and millions of insect species. Leaving no stone unturned, Shaw explores how evolutionary innovations such as small body size, wings, metamorphosis, and parasitic behavior have enabled insects to disperse widely, occupy increasingly narrow niches, and survive global catastrophes in their rise to dominance.

Indeed, in his visits to hyperdiverse rain forests to highlight the current insect extinction crisis, Shaw reaffirms just how crucial these tiny beings are to planetary health and human survival. The introduction explains the basics of butterflies and their identification. The text covers information such as identification features, distribution, habitat, status, confusion species, and interesting facts. Indeed, the ancient Greeks explicitly equated the two in a single word, psyche, so that from early times butterflies were not only a form of life, but also an idea.

From the butterfly collecting and rearing craze that consumed North America and Europe for more than two hundred years a hobby that in some cases bordered on madness , to the potent allure of butterfly iconography in contemporary advertisements and their use in spearheading calls to conserve and restore habitats even though butterflies are essentially economically worthless , Marren unveils the many ways in which butterflies inspire us as objects of beauty and as symbols both transient and transcendent.

They are capable of incredibly complex behavior, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity— personality, language, childcare—with completely different pathways from our own? What is going on inside the mind of those ants that march like boot-camp graduates across your kitchen floor? How does the lead ant know exactly where to take her colony, to that one bread crumb that your nightly sweep missed? Can insects be taught new skills as easily as your new puppy? Sex on Six Legs is a startling and exciting book that provides answers to these questions and many more.

The introduction to the text explains the anatomy and behaviors of these amazingly diverse creatures, as well as the easiest, most efficient manner in which to preserve and mount your insect collection. Each entry is stunningly complemented by one or more color photographs and contains information about the habitat, distribution, length, recognition marks, and other pertinent details concerning the particular species.

This is an indispensable reference tool for anyone fascinated by the insect world. At once a representative of death, due to its fangs and dangerous poison, the spider can also represent life and creation, because of its intricate web and females who carry sacs of thousands of tiny eggs. In this wide-ranging book, Katarzyna and Sergiusz Michalskiinvestigate the natural history and cultural significance of the spider. From ancient Greek myth to Dostoyevsky, the authors explore the appearance of spiders in literature and their depictions in art, paying particular attention to the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois.

With full-color pictures and readable text, this guide identifies representative species and describes: A nature journalist travels to such places as Arizona, Florida, and the upper Amazon region, documenting his encounters with the housefly, the tarantula, squid, the leech, the worm, the moth, and other invertebrates. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and paintings, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing views of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology.

Fully illustrated with full-color photographs throughout, this beautiful guide covers everything you need to know to start your own backyard hive, from setup to harvest. One part science, one part cultural history, and countless parts fascination, Bees celebrates the important role that these intriguing insects have played in our ecosystem throughout the ages.

From Athena to Alexander the Great and from Egypt to Ethiopia, Bees explores different methods of beekeeping and uncovers the debt that humans owe this vital species. With beautifully accessible illustrations depicting everything from bee anatomy to the essentials of honey making, readers will be captivated by the endless wonders of this seemingly small speck of the animal kingdom. Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 species found in the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of damp bogs in Scotland.

A few survive for months while other ephemeral creatures only fly for three days. Several are virtually extinct. Barkham brings alive the extraordinary physical beauty and amusingly diverse character of our butterflies. He witnesses a swarming invasion of Painted Ladies, experiences the curse of the Purple Emperor, makes a euphoric sighting of an exceedingly rare migrant and as summer draws to a close, suffers from butterfly burnout.

He meets some deeply knowledgeable and eccentric butterfly obsessives and reconnects with lovely, overlooked corners of our countryside. As he goes, he looks back at the butterfly collectors of the past and ahead to a future in which many of our butterflies will struggle to survive on an overcrowded and overheating island.

Wry, attentive, full of infectious delight and curiosity, written with a beautifully light touch, The Butterfly Isles will become a classic of British nature writing. Laufer begins by examining the allure of butterflies throughout history, but his research soon veers into the high-stake realms of organized crime, ecological devastation, museum collections, and chaos theory.

His ever-expanding journey of discovery throughout the Americas and beyond offers a rare look into a theater of intrigue, peopled with quirky and nefarious characters—all in pursuit of these delicate, beautiful creatures.

Read this book, and your garden—and the world—will never quite look the same. This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects—ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Wilson reinterprets the knowledge of these insects through the concepts of modern biology, from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology.

In this new fourth edition, the authors introduce the key features of insect structure, function, behavior, ecology and classification, placed within the latest ideas on insect evolution. A strong evolutionary theme is maintained throughout. The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface.

While not necessarily brightly coloured or beautiful, ants display some remarkable characteristics that are almost unique in the animal world.

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