caa a22 4500 397570589 CHVBK 20180308164840.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/ee/25.6.1463 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/ee/25.6.1463 Longino John T. The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA Book Review [Elektronische Daten] [John T. Longino] THERE IS A MYSTERY to be solved. Certain ants follow people. These "tramp” ants predictably are found in human habitations and areas of high human disturbance, but not in surrounding native habitats. For the past decade, I have been surveying the ant fauna of a rich Neotropical area (Costa Rica), and I constantly am amazed at the specificity and predictability of a handful of tramp species. I can spend person-years cataloging the diversity of a patch of rainforest and not find tramp species, yet I know that I can walk 20 m from the forest to a dining hall or laboratory and find them. These species are a myrmecologist's friends, because they allow me to impress people the world over with my knowledge. I can go to almost any tropical field station in the world, be it in Bolivia or Bali, look at the 1mm long ants running in the sugar bowl, and pronounce "Ah, Tapinoma melanocephalum (F.), I see.” God forbid they ask about the ants in the forest beyond! © 1996 Entomological Society of America Book Reviews nationallicence Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/6(1996-12-01), 1463-1464 0046-225X 25:6<1463 1996 25 ee https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.6.1463 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 book-reviews jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.6.1463 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Longino John T. The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/6(1996-12-01), 1463-1464 0046-225X 25:6<1463 1996 25 ee Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford