Simone and her team of entomologists travel to Costa Rica's lush rain forest to investigate some strange looking army ants that appear to have not one but two abdomens.
Explains what scavengers are and presents a photo-illustrated overview of the army ant, describing its physical characteristics, habitat, societal structure, behavior, diet, hunting tactics, and life cycle.
While hiking in the woods not far from his house, Scooter and his friend, Connor, find a large hole that appears to go deep into the ground, and unfortunately it belongs to human-sized army ants.
Scooter McGillan and his friend, Conner, discover a large hole in the woods at the outskirts of Russellville, Alabama, and soon they find themselves ambushed by giant army ants, that are as big as a normal adult, but as they flee they learn that their friend Annie has been kidnapped by the freaks of nature and Scooter and Connor set out to rescue Annie.
The most important predators in neotropical forests
2006
What makes army ants, such as those living in Costa Rica, Panama, and Ecuador, so astonishing? They make nests by holding onto the legs of their nest mates; their queen lays 100,000 eggs every 35 days and a colony can kill 500,000 animals every week! Learn these and more astonishing facts.
