The way of ants

Year Published: 1957

Creator: Mary Lela Grimes Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council Massachusetts Audubon Society Children's Museum of Boston Robert Larsen Betty Sears Charles Walcott Robert Willey WGBH-TV

Format: 16mm

Description: The ants are social insects with a fascinating story of division of labor and social organization. Their history of how this social structure developed from very simple beginnings to more complicated systems is interesting too. You’ll find that some ants eat protein food while others are vegetarians, and you’ll discover that the kind of society which ants maintain is related to their food habits. Robert Willey, an entomologist, will demonstrate these things with live colonies of ants. You’ll learn too how to keep an ant colony and what kinds of questions about behavior of ants you might answer by observation. On film, you will see an ant herdsman tending the aphid cows and stoking them to secure their sweet honeydew.

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