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Sounds good to me: Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
I was listening to an interview on NPR a few weeks ago. The interviewee was a guy known as "the Indiana Jones of entomology," and he'd written a book about ants.
Apparently there is an ant war whose front lines stretch all the way across the state of California. It is between two super-giant ant colonies, one of which basically stretches from Los Angeles into parts of Northern Mexico, and one of which stretches from San Francisco to Los Angeles, or some such craziness. Ants are apparently incredibly nationalistic, and form nations by chemical scent, and have no concept of peace. If they run across another ant that smells different, they have no choice but to kill, and they do not retreat, ever. So there's this crazy long line of ants that just clash somewhere around San Francisco, across the whole fucking state and kill each other, endlessly.
Ants are motherfucking intense.
EDIT: Link to book.
I recently got this book, Adventures Among Ants http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Among-Ants-Global-Trillions/dp/0520261992, which has photos of the exploding ants any many other crazy ant things - definitely recommended! I actually had lunch with the author, very funny guy, as you would imagine an ant expert to be.
A less expensive alternative is Mark W. Moffett's Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions. The front and back cover boast endorsements from E.O. Wilson and Jane Goodall, among others.
Edit: Added subtitle and better link. As of the time of this edit, there are used copies available on Amazon for under $5.00.