About the Book
Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari With a Cast of Trillions
Take a look at daring eco-adventurer Mark Moffett’s spectacular new ant book, Adventures Among Ants.—Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books
Adventures Among Ants is packed with graphic enthusiasm [and] provocative thoughts… Moffett writes with an entertainer’s instinct for hooking a restless audience. Luckily our voyeurism about the gory, pitiless world of insects is also his.—The New York Times
Adventures Among Ants is an entomologist’s answer to such classic books of wildlife adventure as Jane Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man and Dian Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist. Mark travels the globe to investigate the social lives of six ant species, showing how social complexity can arise in incredible places.
“Adventures among Ants is hefty, yet aerodynamic. It’s really good for killing ants." —Stephen Colbert
“stimulating read… stunning photography”
Think you know about ants? Think again, and take it from Mark W. Moffett, who has travelled all over the world to study them. Ants seem to live in a parallel university to our own, one rife with warfare, terrorism, traffic jams, and highway infrastructure. A stimulating read, with stunning photography.—Bernd Heinrich, author of Mind of the Raven
“dive into a bizarre world”
I love this book. Mark Moffett’s excitement and joy will affect anyone willing to take a dive into a bizarre world. I will never intentionally step on another ant—perhaps out of a new love, respect, or fear. Adventures Among Ants will grow on you rather than swarm up your leg.—Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate in chemistry and author of Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
“A parallel universe”
The book will return you to the magic you knew as a child, when you watched a tiny parade of creatures and understood: here, too, is life. Here you will find a parallel universe of mysterious, alien creatures silently emerging from and returning to their dark and magical queendoms.—Dale Peterson, author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
‘the Jane Goodall of ants.’
Mark has been described as ‘the Jane Goodall of ants.’ Certainly Adventures Among Ants, with its detailed account of his fieldwork, makes an invaluable contribution to our scientific knowledge of these creatures. But it does more. It is so will written and captures his excitement so wonderfully that it will bring this wealth of information to a far wider audience. I was fascinated with ants when I was a child—how I wish this book had been available to me then.—Jane Goodall
thought-provoking
Adventures Among Ants combines brilliant portraits of six species with thought-provoking lessons about the nature of social evolution—Richard Wrangham, author of The Goodness Paradox and Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human
graphic enthusiasm [and] provocative thoughts
Adventures Among Ants is packed with graphic enthusiasm [and] provocative thoughts… Moffett writes with an entertainer’s instinct for hooking a restless audience. Luckily our voyeurism about the gory, pitiless world of insects is also his.—The New York Times
Spectacular
Take a look at daring eco-adventurer Mark Moffett’s spectacular new ant book, Adventures Among Ants.—Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books

Articles and reviews about the book
New York Times: Adventures Among Ants book Review
New York Times: Exploring the globe for the world of ants
Los Angeles Times: Mark Moffett, the Jane Goodall of ants
The Scientist: War Zone
Choice Reviews: “A startling new perspective on the limits of our own perception”
National Wildlife Federation: “The hidden world of ants”
Nature: The beauty of ant antics
New York Review of Books: “Mark Moffett’s spectacular new ant book”
Washington Post: Insecticide and other tales
Trends in Ecology and Evolution: Popular ants with style and substance
Integrative & Comparative Biology: Is there anything new to tell about ants? The answer is definitely YES and Mark Moffett proves it
Suffolk Times: Mark is “a camera-gripping daredevil who dangles from helicopters and charges up trees with Indian bull elephants in hot pursuit”
The Standard-Times: A chat with ant expert, author, National Geographic photographer Mark Moffett